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Survey of English Place-Names

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Pryme Plant.

Other OS name in the Parish of Halstock

Historical Forms

  • Middle Pryme & Outrack Pryme 1842 ib
  • Prynne 1799 ERO

Etymology

, 1842TA , Middle Pryme & Outrack Pryme 1842ib , Prynne 1799ERO , one of Thomas Hollis 's commemorative names , here alluding to William Prynne ( 1600 – 69 ) , Puritan pamphleteer , v. note under f. ns . infra ; Outrack may represent out ' outer, outside ' and rack ' narrow path ' .