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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bottom Dam & Top Dam

Other OS name in the Parish of Lymm

Historical Forms

  • Higher Dam & Lower Dam 1839 TA

Etymology

, Higher Dam & Lower Dam 1839TA , cf. Dam Pool 1831 Bry , the mill - dams of Lymm Corn Mill , v. damme .