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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Threepow Raise

Other OS name in the Parish of Askham

Etymology

, 1859OS , a tumulus on the parish boundary ( cf. RCHM 28 ) , clearly a cairn marking a disputed boundary , v. þreap , haugr , hreysi ' tumulus ' .