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Survey of English Place-Names

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Tillingbourne

Other OS name in the Parish of Wotton

Etymology

was known before c. 1840 as Lonesome and the dell as Lonesome Bottom ( SAC xxxvii, 146 ) . Cf. Lonesome 1787 ParReg . The present name of the house is taken from that of the stream ( v. supra 6 ) .