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Scatterford Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Newland

Historical Forms

  • Scatterford 1627 FF

Etymology

, Scatterford 1627FF , v. ford ; the first el . is obscure unless it is a development of the ME  byname Sclattere ' slater ' ; there is some slight evidence for scl - in such a context becoming sc - as well as the more normal sl - , cf. Scaitcliffe (YW iii,176–7) .