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Survey of English Place-Names

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Shipbrook Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Davenham

Historical Forms

  • Shipbrooke Bridge, Longe Bridge 1619 Sheaf

Etymology

, 1831 ib , Shipbrooke Bridge ,Longe Bridge 1619 Sheaf , crossing R . Dane into Davenham , v. lang , cf. Bridge End Fm 204supra and Birdge Cliffe 1598 Orm2 , v. clif .

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