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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Burgess's Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Woodlands

Etymology

, cf. Burgess Md 1840TA , probably to be associated with byrches (copselyinge in Whitmore under byrches )1551Midd , v. birce ' birch-tree ' , Whitmore infra , cf. Birches Copse in Wimborne St G .par. supra .