English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Park Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Powerstock

Historical Forms

  • Parks coppice 1839 TA

Etymology

, Parks coppice 1839TA , named from ' a park of about forty acres , now divided into several grounds still retaining that name , and belonging to the duke of Bolton ' ( 1774 Hutch1 1362 ) , cf. ad parcum 1300 Hutch3 ( in a description of the bounds of Powerstock forest ) , Parke Meade 1653SxAS , Parkemoore 1703Mont , Parkmead ,Parks mead , Great Parks , Hr Parks , Long Parks & Rough Parks , Park Water 1839TA , v. park .