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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.

Sparrowpit

Other OS name in the Parish of Chapel en le Frith

Historical Forms

  • Sparrowe pit house 1617 Hard
  • Sparrowe pitt hole c.1620 ib

Etymology

, Sparrowe pit house 1617Hard , Sparrowe pitt hole c. 1620 ib , cf. the Sparrowpitt yatte 1640Map ( v. geat ) .