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Survey of English Place-Names

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Quarry Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Astbury

Historical Forms

  • Quarry Close 1831 Bry

Etymology

, 1842 OS , Quarry Close 1831 Bry , v. quarriere , cf. Orm2 i130 , ' … there are very fair mill - stones digged up at Mowcop - hill ' ( King ) , and the millstone work called the Marefoot Work 1647BW , Marefoot on Mole 1684ib , ' the foot of the boundary ' , v. (ge)mǣre , fōt , from the position below the county - boundary ridge of Mow Cop hill supra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site