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Survey of English Place-Names

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Thorncombe North Belt & Thorncombe South Bolt (sic)

Other OS name in the Parish of Langton Long Blandford

Etymology

, cf. Thorncombe Bottom 1811 OS , from Thorncombe in Blandford St M . par . supra , v. belt , botm .