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Holmes and Puddleway Coppice, Holmes Cmn

Other OS name in the Parish of Tarrant Gunville

Historical Forms

  • Homes, Pudleway (coppices) 1618 Map
  • Holmes (Hill) 1829 EnclA
  • Holmes and Puddleway, Holmes's hill 1839 TA

Etymology

, Homes , Pudleway (coppices)1618Map , Holmes (Hill )1829EnclA , Holmes and Puddleway , Holmes 's hill 1839TA , from the surname Home (s ) , puddel ' puddle,shallow pond ' , weg , cf. Stainer's (Holmes) Coppice infra .