Shire Rack
Other OS name in the Parish of Sixpenny Handley
Etymology
, now the name of a stretch of the Do - Wiltshire county bdy for some 2 – 3 miles ( on 1 ″ it is marked 2 miles further W than on 6 ″ ) , thus suggesting that the second el . might be ModE dial . rack ' a narrow path, a boundary ' ( v. PN W 445 ) , cf. Shire way 17CecilMap ; however it may take its name from Shire oke 1618Map ( a copse just on the Wiltshire side of the bdy ) , as suggested in PN W 205 , from scīr 1 and āc ' oak-tree ' .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Brockwell Coppice
- Calcots Wd
- Captain's Wd
- Cashmoor
- Chaffinger's Coppice
- Champs Fm
- Chapel Down Fm
- Chapel Fm
- Church Barrow
- Common Pond
- The Cross
- Currier's Coppice
- Deanend (Bushes)
- Dean Lane (Drove), Deanland
- Drow Coppice
- Endless Pit
- Ferney Way
- Five Ways
- Manor Fm
- Monks' Arundell Coppice
- New Barn
- New Town
- Oakley Lane
- Old Chalk Pit(s)
- Old Manor Ho
- Oxford St.
- Pleckley
- Pollards Wd
- Pribdean Wd
- Ridingway
- Scrubbity Barrows, Scrubbity Coppice
- Sessions Gate
- Gt Shaftesbury Coppice, Lt Shaftesbury Coppice
- Shermel Gate
- Stickley's Barn
- Stock Coppice
- Straight Lane
- Tarrant's Bottom, Tarrant's Coppice
- Thorney Down Fm
- Town Fm
- Upwood
- Vicarage
- Withywind Coppice
- Woodcutts Cmn
- Wood Fm(lost)
- Wood-Ward's Way
- Buck's Stile
- Greatstone Coppice, Littlestone Coppice
- Minchington Cross, Minchington Down
- Brookes Coppice
- Garston Down, Garston Wd
- Miller's Barn, Miller's Lane
- St Mary's Church
- Barber's Coppice
- Barrow Coppice
- Beehive Fm
- Bridmore Ride
- Foxbury Lower Hedge, Foxbury Great Lower Hedge
- Green Lane
- Handley Cmn
- Handley Down
- Handley Hill, Handley Ho
- Hill Coppice
- Hoe Coppice
- Humby's Stock Coppice
- Hutchins Coppice
- Inward Lardenhall, Outward Lardenhall
- Little Ball
- Little Down Ctgs
- Littlestone Coppice
- Lower Fm
- Maidment's Ctgs
- St Andrew's Church