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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Rug Spinney

Other OS name in the Parish of Shipton under Wychwood

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Rug Furlong c. 1840TA . Rug Piece occurs in Chastleton ( 342 ) and Enstone ( 350 ) . Mrs Rose (HistChurch) mentions the term rug as applied in this region to large stones .