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Cat Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Stourton Caundle

Etymology

, perhaps a reduced form of Catherine Wheel Lane 1706 , so named from the Katherine Wheel 1770 , now Trooper Inn infra ( forms from G.W.L . Fernandes & A.E.G . Blades , Stourton Caundle , Dorchester 1974 , pp. 51 – 2 ) .