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Survey of English Place-Names

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Guard House Finger(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Shotwick

Etymology

( lost , 109–353702 ) , 1831 Bry , a finger - post at the east end of a path across the marshes of Dee , near a building which probably housed a guide who would look to the safety of passengers fording the Dee estuary , as at the guide - houses beside Morecambe Bay La .