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Survey of English Place-Names

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Gt Fern Coppice & Lt Fern Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Netherbury

Historical Forms

  • Fern Copse 1839 TA

Etymology

, Fern Copse 1839TA , cf. Fearne Hill 1698DCMCt , Gt Fern Hill , Hr Fern Hill & Lr Fern Hill , Lt Fern , Fern Hill Plot , Fern Knowle 1839ib , v. fearn , cnoll .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement