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Survey of English Place-Names

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Carlton Clump

Other OS name in the Parish of Carlton Curlieu

Historical Forms

  • Carlton Earth 1806 Map

Etymology

, 1835 O , v. clump ; it is Carlton Earth 1806 Map ( either with eorðe in its sense ' earth or lair ' , as for the badger or fox , or erð ' ploughed land ' ) .