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Copthorne
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Spernentrogh
(KW)
Type:
Settlement
Parish:
Launcells
Hundred:
Stratton
Elements:
spern
Meaning:
thorn trees
trogh
Meaning:
coppiced, cut
Elements notes:
EMF: OWS coppede ‘pollarded, provided with a top’ + OWS Þorn ‘thorn-tree’ECF: spernen ‘thorn tree’ + trogh ‘cut’
Historic forms:
Copthorn 1826 (Gover, 1948)