English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Yards South Coppice & Yards West Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Stoke Abbott

Historical Forms

  • Yards South Copse, Yards West (Copse) 1839 TA

Etymology

, Yards South Copse , Yards West (Copse )1839TA , probably named from Yard Fm in Marshwood par . infra , but cf. also Hr Stone Yards & Lr Stone Yards 1839ib .