Historically, a piece of land belonging to or adjacent to a church; church property or glebe.
From church + shot (from Old English sceot, meaning 'a piece of land' or 'a division'). The term survives mainly in historical documents and place names.
Old English and Middle English had vocabulary for dividing land ('shot,' 'leys,' 'glebe') that's mostly disappeared from modern use, but it survives in place names like 'Bagshot' and 'Aldershot,' making these towns unwitting etymology lessons.
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