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Smallfleets Common(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Cleethorpes

Historical Forms

  • Smale flittes 1601 Terrier
  • Smalflits 1671,1674,1678,1697 Terrier
  • the Small fleets 1686 Terrier
  • Small flits 1715 Terrier
  • Small Fleets 1749 Baker

Etymology

( lost ) , 1846EnclA , Smale flittes 1601Terrier ,Smalflits 1671, 1674, 1678, 1697Terrier , the Small fleets 1686Terrier , Small flits 1715Terrier , Small Fleets 1749 Baker , ' the narrow streams, water-channels ' , v. smæl , flēot in the pl . On the plan , 1749 Baker , it lies immediately to the east of Clee village .