CowplainCowplain, Havant |
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Havant Hampshire SU6911 |
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HANTSLOC.t |
old map: | 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXVIII.14 |
Cowplain otherwise: Cow-plain, 1859 |
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Coates 1989 COWPLAIN This is the only one of the spots called 'plain' in the Forest of Bere which has achieved distinction as a biggish inhabited place. These will have been forest plains in the technical sense .... [Rackham 'Trees'....] PLAIN This word is used in its ordinary sense of 'large tract of open land' both in the New Forest (BRATLEY PLAIN 'Wilverley Plain, Janesmoor Plain') and in the Forest of Bere (COWPLAIN). |