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Yellbrow

Other OS name in the Parish of Lymm

Historical Forms

  • Yield Brow 1831 Bry
  • Heald, Heald Browfield, Yeld Bank or Baras Bank 1839 TA

Etymology

, Yield Brow 1831 Bry, Heald , Heald Browfield , Yeld Bank or Baras Bank 1839TA , v. helde ' a slope, a declivity ' , brū , banke , cf. Barsbanksupra .