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Survey of English Place-Names

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Drow Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Sixpenny Handley

Historical Forms

  • Throake 1618 Map
  • Draw Coppice 1841 TA

Etymology

, Throake 1618Map , Draw Coppice 1841TA , probably ModE ( SW ) dial . throck , drock ' a covered drain,a flat stone across a ditch ' , v. EPN s. v. þroc and PN W 339 .