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Four Ashes

Other OS name in the Parish of Stoke Abbott

Historical Forms

  • atten Assh' 1332 SR

Etymology

, 1811 OS , 1839TA , a crossroads marked by four ash - trees ; other references to the tree in this par . include Long Ash Hill & Long Ash Orchd in f. ns . infra and Robert atte Nasshe 1327 , Robert atten Assh '1332 SR , ' at the ash-tree ' , v. atten , æsc .