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Gt Shaftesbury Coppice, Lt Shaftesbury Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Sixpenny Handley

Historical Forms

  • Shaftberies 1618 Map
  • Gt Shaftesbury, Lt Shaftesbury 1841 TA

Etymology

, Shaftberies 1618Map , Gt Shaftesbury , Lt Shaftesbury 1841TA , cf. Shaftesbury Fd ib , no doubt from its possession by the Earls of Shaftesbury , cf. Shaftsbury Copse in Pentridge par . 2 237 .