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Buckshill Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Turners Puddle

Historical Forms

  • Bucks' Hill, Buckshill Wd 1838 TA

Etymology

, Bucks ' Hill , Buckshill Wd 1838TA , cf. pratum nuper Johannis Bucke 1430Weld 1 , Joh ' Bukke pro 1 molend ' fullon '1457ib , tenura Thome Bukke voc ' Allerhams 1476ib , cf. Alderhams'Coppice infra ; the mill would probably have been on R . Piddle or Trent beside which Buckshill is situated .