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Originally Posted by MargaretR
More likely to have originated from -
kopje - definition of kopje by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
kopje koppie
noun (S. African) hill, down (archaic), fell, mount, height, mound, prominence, elevation, eminence, hilltop, tor, knoll, hillock, brae (Scot.) the rocky kopjes, small hills rising like islands |
Margaret I'm with you on this... Chambers has
kop, S. Afr, a hill generally round topped, from Dutch for head, and
coppice or copse from the Old French for newly cut wood.
Since the name is not on any maps does anyone know how long people have been calling it the Coppice?