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Sykes' Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Goxhill

Etymology

, cf. Sikes lHy3, 1312 (l14)Gox , the sikes 1648LindDep 67 , (the ) Sikes 1685BPD , 1693Foster , 1775EnclA , le Sykes el4 ( l14 ) Gox , m16Cragg , ' the small streams or ditches ' , v. sīc , sík ; in ME f. ns . this word came to mean ' a piece of meadowalong a stream ' .