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Survey of English Place-Names

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Osgold Cross

Early-attested site in the Parish of Pontefract

Etymology

Osgold Cross (lost), 'a messuage over against Osgodcross alias Pontefract Market Cross adioyning the Chapell of St Gyles' 1652ParlSurv (E. 317, Yorks 47). This is undoubtedly the cross from which Osgoldcross Wapentake was named (v. 1supra ); it was near Market Place 77supra . The name means 'Osgot's cross', v. cros . The pers.n. Osgot , which also appears in the local street-name Osgatelayn 78supra , is an anglicised form of ON  Ásgautr (as in Osgodby YN 104, Horse Godly iii, 58infra , cf. Feilitzen 164–6).