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Survey of English Place-Names

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Vostell's Brook

Other OS name in the Parish of Newnham

Historical Forms

  • Forstall(e) c.1220,1418,1492 GlR
  • Vostrills 1839 TA

Etymology

, Forstall (e )c. 1220, 1418, 1492 GlR,Vostrills 1839TA , v. fore-stall , cf. K dial . fostal ' place or paddockin front of a farmhouse ' , for initial V - cf. Phonol. § 34 (a ) .