Lytchett Heath
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Lytchett Heath is an area of woods and farmland on the Dorset Heaths between the villages of Lytchett Matravers, Lytchett Minster and the hamlet of Beacon Hill in the county of Dorset, England.Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map series, No. 195 Part of it is a reserve managed jointly by the Dorset Wildlife Trust and the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust.[http://www.arc-trust.org/Resources/Arc%20Trust/Documents/HopGossip-AW-2014.pdf Great Heath Living Landscape]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} article by Gary Powell in Hop Gossip magazine, Autumn/Winter 2014. Retrieved 1 Dec 2014 St Aldhelm's was built in 1898 as a private church for Lord Eustace Cecil.{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1120333 |title=SAINT ALDHELM'S CHURCH, Lytchett Minster and Upton - 1120333 |publisher=Historic England |date= |accessdate=2019-11-03}}
Etymology
The name of Lytchett Heath is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Lichet. This name comes from the Brittonic words that survive in modern Welsh as {{lang|cy|llwyd}} ("grey") and {{lang|cy|coed}} ("wood").{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780521168557 |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |location=Cambridge}}, s.v. Lytchett Matravers.{{Cite book |last=Coates |first=Richard |title=Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain |last2=Breeze |first2=Andrew |publisher=Tyas |year=2000 |isbn=1900289415 |location=Stamford}}.{{rp|294}}
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Category:Protected areas of Dorset
Category:Dorset places with etymologically Brittonic names
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