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Old Fish Ponds

Other OS name in the Parish of Combe Fields

Historical Forms

  • Covent Poole 1547 Pat
  • le Convent Garden 1537 LP

Etymology

. This is probably the Covent Poole of 1547(Pat), the old fish ponds of the Abbey. Cf. Covent Garden inWestminster, le Convent Garden 1537 LP .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement