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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fancy Beach

Other OS name in the Parish of Portland

Etymology

, from the surname Fancy ( W.H.P.C. ) and beach ( used in Portland of ' topsoil dug out in opening new quarries ' ( B.K. ) ) .

Places in the same Parish