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Fountains Earth

Major Settlement in the Parish of Kirkby Malzeard

Historical Forms

  • the morez callid Fontaunce erthe 1540 Fount
  • ffountance earth 1598 SessnR
  • Fountain's Heath 1724 Yorke
  • Fountain's Earth 1822 Langd

Etymology

Named from Fountains 191supra . The second el. earth refers to the moors which constitute a great part of the township; this may be from OE  erð 'arable land' but is more probably from eorðe 'earth' used generally to denote 'a tract of land'.

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Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site