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Folly Pier

Other OS name in the Parish of Portland

Historical Forms

  • New or Folly Pier 1800 Bettey1

Etymology

, 1811 OS , New or Folly Pier ('deemed a bad one as to the Sea as well as theRoads to it') 1800 Bettey1 , v. folie , cf. King's Pier infra .

Places in the same Parish