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Survey of English Place-Names

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Meg's Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Waterhead

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is probably so named from Meg Merrilies of Scott 's Guy Mannering .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement