Winspit (Bottom), Winspit East End
Other OS name in the Parish of Worth Matravers
Historical Forms
- Winspit quarry 1786,1861 Hutch3
- Winspit 1811 OS
Etymology
( 6″ ) ( local ) , Winspit quarry 1786, 1861 Hutch3, Winspit 1811OS , perhaps ' stone pit with a winch ' , v. wince , pytt ; Arkell ( 1940 ) 44 , ( 1941 ) 33 , suggests derivation from spitu ' a spit of land ' and dial . whin ' hard rock ' ( only NCy according to EDD and NED , though noted by Arkell as in use in Sx in 19th cent . ) , but Professor Löfvenberg points out that if the second el . is in fact spitu , the first may rather be wind 1 ' wind ' or winn 1 ' pasture ' .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- St Alban's Head or St Aldhelm's Head
- Weston Fm
- Woodyhyde Ctgs, Woodyhyde Fm
- Seacombe Bottom, Seacombe Cliff, Seacombe Quarry, Seacombe Gallery
- St Aldhelm's Chapel
- Caplestone Ctg
- Chapman's Pool (Ctgs)
- Eastington Fm
- Haycraft
- Quarr
- Renscombe Fm
Other OS name
- Abbascombe
- Black Man's Stile
- Bonvils Fm
- Buttery Corner
- Compact Fm
- The Cottage
- Crab Hole
- Culverwell
- Downshay Fm, Downshay Wd
- Emmetts Hill
- Sheepfold
- Lr Sutton, Top Sutton
- Turnpike Ctgs
- Watch Rock
- West Hill
- Worth Fm, Worth Quarries
- Halswell Bars, Halswell Cliff, Halswell Rock
- Sunnydown School
- Gallows Gore Ctgs
- Square & Compass (P.H.)
- Flower Mdw
- Harman's Copse, Harman's Cross, Harman's Cross Rds
- Hill Bottom
- Instow
- Lookout Post, Rocket Post
- East Man, West Man
- Manor Ho
- Mike's Cove, Willy's Cove
- Necklace
- North Hill
- Pier Bottom
- Primrose Hill
- Ring-Bum Gdns
- Rookery
- St Nicholas's Church