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Slide Acre Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Mapperton

Historical Forms

  • Slide Acre, Old Slide Land 1837 ib

Etymology

, Slide Acre , Old Slide Land 1837ib , perhaps ModE  slide ' an earth-slip, a slippery place ' ( 17th cent.NED ) ; a small stream rises here .