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Survey of English Place-Names

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Charity Barn & Charity Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Litton Cheney

Etymology

, v. charity , cf . ' a farm … purchased … about the close of the last century , for the endowment of an almshouse in Blandford Forum ' 1863 Hutch3 2750 ( this was in fact Ryve 's almshouse on which v. supra 2 89 and Hutch 3 1 238 ) .