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Survey of English Place-Names

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Lyne Edge

Other OS name in the Parish of Stockport

Historical Forms

  • Line Edge 1831 Bry

Etymology

( 101–960970 to 963978 ) , 1842 OS , Line Edge 1831 Bry , from ecg ' an edge, a ridge ' , and the old region - name The Lyme , v. 3supra , cf. Ashton under Lyne La 29 , two miles north of this .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name