English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Halfway Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Nether Compton

Historical Forms

  • The Halfway House Inn 1838 TA

Etymology

, 1811 OS , The Halfway House Inn 1838TA , so named from its situation roughly equidistant from Yeovil and Sherborne .