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.
Survey of English place-names
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Beacon Course
Beacon Course
Other OS name in the Parish of Swaffham Prior
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) . Cf.
the
Beacon
Course
Road
1805
EnclA
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Beacon Fm
Delver End and Delver Bridge
Barston Bridge and Barston Drove
Reach
Reach Lode
Other OS name
Black Droveway
Bunbury Fm
Chapel Fm
Church Hill
Driest Droveway
Fair Green
The Hall
Headlake Drove
Highfen Fm
Little Fen Drove
Lowbridge Hole
Mill Drain
Partridge Hall Fm
Rail Drove
River Bank
Round Course
Split Drove
Sedge Fen
Whiteway Drove
Swaffham Prior Fen
