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Survey of English Place-Names

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Holy Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Nevill Holt

Historical Forms

  • Our Lady's Well 1798 Nichols 1831 Curtis

Etymology

, 1824 O ; it is Our Lady 's Well 1798 Nichols, 1831Curtis , alluding to the Blessed Virgin Mary , v. hālig , wella .