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Survey of English Place-Names

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The Drove

Other OS name in the Parish of Winfrith Newburgh

Historical Forms

  • ye Droue 1705 ib

Etymology

, 1682Weld 1 , ye Droue 1705ib , cf. Droveyate 1663 Drove end 1682ib , v. drove ' road on which cattle are driven ' , geat , ende , cf. foll. ; the forms regia via voc ' le Drevewey 1392Ct , viam voc ' la Dreue 1416Weld 1 may also belong here ; they contain the related drǣf with a similar meaning to drove , cf. le Dreve in Coombe K . par . supra .