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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cadney Carrs

Other OS name in the Parish of Cadney

Etymology

, 1765Yarb , cf. Carre grounde 1538AOMB 211 , ye Car 1687Inv , the Carr 1780 (1819) Red , Cadney Carr 1817 ib and weste karre 1525 Wills i. Stubbs 4 / 1 / 1 1767 is A Survey of Carrs , from kjarr ' boggy, marshy land ' .