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Survey of English Place-Names

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Tonge Fold

Other OS name in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale

Historical Forms

  • Tong 1831 Bry

Etymology

, Tong 1831 Bry , cf. Tonge 1404 ChRR (p) , and Tonge Ho 313supra , ' (fold at) the spitof land ' , v. tong , fald .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site