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Survey of English Place-Names

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Dowpits Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Appleby St Lawrence

Historical Forms

  • Delpotte (sic for Dolpotte) c.1550 AOMB

Etymology

, 1859OS , Delpotte (sic for Dolpotte )c. 1550AOMB , v. potte ' pit ' ; it is by the Eden .