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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cross Green(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Coppenhall

Historical Forms

  • Cross Green (at the Moreland Crosse) 1566 AddCh

Etymology

( lost , 110–705572 ) , 1831 Bry , 1842 OS , Cross Green (at the Moreland Crosse )1566AddCh , ' green at a cross ' , v. cros , grēne 2 . The cross seems to have been on a boundary of Coppenhall Moss supra , v. mōr 1 , land .