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Survey of English Place-Names

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Four Hundred Down

Other OS name in the Parish of Westbury

Historical Forms

  • 4 Hundred Down c.1840 TA

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is 4 Hundred Down c. 1840TA . Cf. ThirteenHundred Down infra . Probably both so called from their acreage .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement