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Survey of English Place-Names

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Prior's Down

Other OS name in the Parish of Stalbridge

Historical Forms

  • Priorsdown 1795 Boswell

Etymology

, 1839TA , Priorsdown 1795 Boswell , according to Hutch 3 3 677 ' a farm … which seems anciently to have belonged to the prior of Sherborne ' .