Melbury Beacon
Other OS name in the Parish of Melbury Abbas
Etymology
, on Melbury Hill , one of a series of fire - beacons in use at the time of the Armada , v. DoNHAS 81103–6 , (ge)bēacon , but perhaps much older than that if on þat ealde ad in the Anglo - Saxon bounds of Compton A . is to be located here .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Allan's Brow, Allan's Fm
- Barfoot Fm
- Breeze Hill
- Bowdens Hill
- Budden's Fm
- Church House Fm
- Coal Pit Copse
- Cornhill Ctg
- Corn Mill
- Downside
- Gardiner Forest
- Glyn Arms (P.H.)
- Grove Fm
- Horder's Fm
- House's Fm
- Incombe
- Keeper's Lodge
- Manor Fm
- Melbury Down
- East Melbury (Fm)
- Melbury Hill
- West Melbury
- Parham's Fm
- Pitt's Ctg
- Pug's Parlour
- Rectory
- St Thomas's Church
- Swire Hill
- White Pit Ctg, White Pit Lane
- Whitings Fm
- Winter Fd
- Writh Fm, Writh Copse
- Young Copse
- The Zigzag