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Woolfall Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Audlem

Historical Forms

  • Pentry Cloud 1831 Bry
  • Pentre Cloud 1842 OS

Etymology

, Pentry Cloud 1831 Bry, Pentre Cloud 1842 OS , apparently ' hill hamlet ' , from Welsh pentref ' village ' and clūd ' a hill ' , but the second el . may also be Welsh , e.g. clawdd ' a dyke, a hedge, a ditch ' , and the name may mean ' moated house ' or ' stockaded settlement ' . Cf . The Cloud 2291 , Woolfall supra .