Goodleigh, Bodmiscombe

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Goodleigh
Devon

The ford at Goodleigh
Location
Grid reference: ST115104
Location: 50°53’12"N, 3°15’30"W
Data
Postcode: EX15
Local Government
Council: East Devon

Goodleigh is a hamlet about half a mile north-east of Bodmiscombe in the east of Devon.

The name of the place appears to be from the Old English words Goda and leah meaning 'Goda's meadow, after an otherwsie unnkown landowner of Anglo-Saxon days.[1] There is village of the same name in the north of Devon.

References

  1. Mills, A.D. (2011). A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 209. ISBN 9780199609086. 

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