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Survey of English Place-Names

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Lilly Plantation

Other OS name in the Parish of Steeple Bumpstead

Historical Forms

  • Lit(t)lehy, Lit(t)lehei 1233 FF t.Hy3 BM

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Lit (t )lehy , Lit (t )lehei 1233 FF, t. Hy 3 BM . ' Little enclosure , ' v. (ge)hæg and cf. Lilly Wood supra 396 .

Places in the same Parish