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Pottle Oysters Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Whitchurch Canonicorum

Historical Forms

  • Pottle Oysters (Copse), Yonder Pottle Oysters 1843 TA
  • Puddle Osiers 1769 DCMMap
  • Pott of Oisters 1962 B.K.

Etymology

, Pottle Oysters (Copse ), Yonder Pottle Oysters 1843TA , Puddle Osiers 1769DCMMap , Pott of Oisters 1962 B.K. , from puddel ' pond ' and osier ; B.K . reports that the coppice was waterlogged in 1959 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement