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St Mary's Chapel

Other OS name in the Parish of Marshwood

Etymology

( Site of ) , cf. Richard de Capella Hy 3HarlCh , William Pew Capell ' de Mershoude 1331ib , 'St Mary 's chapel of Marshwood '1452 Hutch1 ( ' Here was formerly a chapel of ease to Whitechurch , dedicated to St Mary , but entirely ruined in the civil wars ' ib 1330 ) .