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Birchen Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Nantwich

Historical Forms

  • Birchenlane 1542 AddCh

Etymology

, 1831 Bry , Birchenlane (within thelordship of Wixsterton ) 1542AddCh , ' lane growing with birch-trees ' , v. bircen 2 , lane .