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Botney Lodge

Other OS name in the Parish of South Kilworth

Etymology

, v. loge ; at the western extremity of the parish and thus presum . a ' remoteness ' name , one transferred from Botany Bay in New South Wales , Australia , where Captain James Cook landed in 1770 and where his companion , Sir Joseph Banks , collected a large variety of previously unknown plants which gave the bay its name and where , later , a penal colony was established .