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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.

East Man, West Man

Other OS name in the Parish of Worth Matravers

Etymology

, 1811 OS , two rounded coastal hills over 300 ′ separated by Winspit Bottom infra , cf. also Bodmans Man 1840TA for which v. Bonvils Fm supra ; their shape might suggest PrWelsh mamm ' breast, breast-like hill ' ( cf. OE mamme 'teat' ) , but Professor Jackson suggests comparison with the use of man in the Lake District to mean ' cairn or pile of stones on the top of a hill ' , v. NED s.v. man sb . , PNWe 2 13 .