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Survey of English Place-Names

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Kings Play Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Heddington

Historical Forms

  • Kings Play Down 1773 AandD

Etymology

is Kings Play Down 1773 A and D and is said to be so called from the complete Royalist victory at Roundway Down in 1643 (WM vi, 137) .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Early-attested site