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Walk Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Thornton Curtis

Historical Forms

  • Walk Ho. 1828 Bry

Etymology

, 1824 O , 1830 Gre , Walk Ho .1828Bry , cf. Walk Close , Walk Intake , Walk Plat 1850TA , v. walk denoting land used for the pasture of animals , especially sheep , hence the common Sheepwalk ; v. also inntak ' land taken in ' and plat 2 ' a plotof ground ' , as elsewhere in the f. ns . of this parish .