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Tetney Grove(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Tetney

Historical Forms

  • The Greves 1577–78 Lanc

Etymology

( lost ) , 1828 Bry , The Greves 1577–78 Lanc , cf. Tetney Fitties supra , the growes in South Ferriby, PN L 2, 114 and marsh called the Groves or Greaves in East Halton, ib , 155 . Grove and greave appear to be alternative dial . terms in north L and indeed in the Fenland for a place where digging ( perhaps for turf ) took place . Tetney Grove denoted an area around Sluice Gate .