An archaic or dialectal term for a fern-covered thicket, wood, or shady area.
Compound of 'fern' and 'shaw' (an Old English word for a small wood or thicket).
The word 'shaw' appears in hundreds of English place names—fernshaw would have been a recognized medieval landscape feature, like a mossy fern forest!
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