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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Madscar

Other OS name in the Parish of Taxal

Etymology

, cf. Madscarr Close 1844TA , and Park Wood infra , v. sker ' a rock, a rocky cliff ' .