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Survey of English Place-Names

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Mill Brook

Other OS name in the Parish of Bowdon

Etymology

, named from Baguley Mill , cf. Millhouse infra . This may be the Enesebroc , Enesebrok named in Floats supra , the first el . of which is not known . The stream runs from near Oldwood infra , and if Enese - were taken to be a misreading of Euese - , this would indicate efes ' the edge of the wood ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement