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Scent Close Plant.

Other OS name in the Parish of Winterborne Whitchurch

Etymology

, first el . probably senget ' place cleared by burning ' , possibly with lēah as in St Chloe Gl 198 , Saintlow ib 3219 , with later adaptation to close .