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Survey of English Place-Names

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Tinkers Clough

Other OS name in the Parish of Prestbury

Historical Forms

  • The Tinkers Clough 1611 LRMB200

Etymology

, The Tinkers Clough 1611LRMB 200 , cf. þe Tynkers Hill 1611LRMB 200 , ' tinker's delland hill ' , v. tink(l)ere , clōh , hyll , cf. Tinkerspit Gutter, TodbrookReservoir 162, 174supra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site