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Survey of English Place-Names

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Conies Dale

Other OS name in the Parish of Peak Forest

Historical Forms

  • Cunning Dale c.1620 Hard

Etymology

, apparently Cunning Dale c. 1620Hard , the identification seems fairly certain as the form appears in a list of bounds of Peak Forest ; perhaps ' rabbit valley ' , v. coni , dæl 1 , but cf. Cunning Dale supra 96 .