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Bowshot Coppice & Bowshot Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Wootton Fitzpaine

Historical Forms

  • Bowshot 1811 OS
  • Boweshotemeade 1577 Dun
  • Bowshot Copse & Bowshot Meade, Bowshot Estate 1842 TA
  • Bowshot Lane 1842 TAMap

Etymology

, Bowshot 1811 OS, Boweshotemeade 1577Dun , Bowshot Copse &Bowshot Meade , Bowshot Estate 1842TA , perhaps 'curving angle of land', fromboga 'bow' (used figuratively to describe a curved feature) and scēat'corner of land, projecting piece of land' (the farm lies on a hillside in theangle formed by Bowshot Lane 1842TAMap , a sharply curving lane ) , but cf. bowshot ( ME  bowe-schote ) ' the distance to which an arrow can be shot from a bow ' ( c.1300 NED ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement