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Fornall Bridge, Fornalls Green, Fornalls Green Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of West Kirby

Etymology

, cf. Fornall ( s ) Bridge & Fornall ( s ) Green 298supra , Fornall Mdw 290supra . The bridge ( 100–235895 ) is Stone Bridge 1831 Bry , Fornall Bridge 1842 OS , v. stān , brycg . Fornalls Green was a piece of waste on the Great Meols boundary 100 – 232892 , v. grēne 2 . The p.n. appears in a f.n. , Farno , the Farno , the Great Fornoe 1639 Sheaf , perhaps ' old mound ' , from forn and haugr , but the material is insufficient for certainty .