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Soft Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Goxhill

Historical Forms

  • Soff Lane 1775 EnclA
  • Sough Lane 1678,1684 BH

Etymology

is Soff Lane 1775EnclA , Sough Lane 1678, 1684BH , cf. Sough Leazes 1678, 1684ib , from OE  sōg , sōh ' a bog, a marsh ' , and lǣs ' pasture, meadow land ' ; it forms in part the boundary between Goxhill and Thornton Curtis .