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Survey of English Place-Names

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Mount Radford, Mount Radford Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Wootton Fitzpaine

Historical Forms

  • Mount Radford Copse 1843 ib

Etymology

( 1811 OS , 1843TA (Whitchurch C.) ) ( Mount Radford Copse 1843ib ) , cf. Mount Radford Md 1843ib ; a track crosses a stream here , so perhaps ' red orreed ford ' , from rēad or hrēod , ford , but possibly a transferred name from another place , e.g. Radford PN D 172, 257 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement