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Survey of English Place-Names

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Merchant's Downs

Other OS name in the Parish of Bagendon

Historical Forms

  • Merchant's Down 1792 EnclA

Etymology

, Merchant 's Down 1792EnclA , probably from the surname Merchant , v. dūn ' hill ' .