East Orchard
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Etymology
The name of East Orchard is first attested in a charter of 939 (surviving in a fifteenth-century copy), in the form Archet.[3] It does not appear in the Domesday Book[3] (the Horcerd found there is more likely to refer to Orchard near Church Knowle on Purbeck).[4][5] The name derives from the Common Brittonic words that survive in modern Welsh as Script error: No such module "Lang". ("on") and Script error: No such module "Lang". ("wood"), and thus the name once meant "at the wood". Its modern form shows assimilation to the English noun orchard through folk-etymology.[3][6]Template:Rp The element East was added to the name later when the settlement became distinct from West Orchard.
References
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- ↑ The Orchards and Margaret Marsh Group Parish Council, dorsetforyou.com
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- ↑ National Archives
- ↑ H. C. Darby, G. R. Versey, (2008), Domesday Gazetteer, page 124. Cambridge University Press.
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