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Survey of English Place-Names

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le crosse bryge

Field in the Parish of Marsh Chapel

Historical Forms

  • le crosse bryge 1839 TA 1839 TA

Etymology

le crosse bryge 1461*, 1505*('the bridge by thecross', v. cros, brycg, with the second el. in a Scandinavianized form; it wentover Land Dike)