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Survey of English Place-Names

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White Moor (Copse)

Other OS name in the Parish of Holt

Historical Forms

  • White Moor Coppice 1847 TA

Etymology

, White Moor Coppice 1847TA , cf. Whytemore Lake 1524AddCh , Whitemoor Grd &Whitemoor Md 1847TA , v. hwīt ' white ' ( probably in allusion to soil colour ) , mōr ' marshy ground ' , lacu ' stream ' .

Places in the same Parish