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Midge Hole(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Bampton

Historical Forms

  • Midghill 1839 TA

Etymology

( lost ) , 1681, 1685 PR , Midghill 1839TA a variant of dial . mudge-hole ' a soft boggy hole ' ( v. micge ' liquid drainings of manure ' ) , cf. Midge Hole (YW iii, 200) ; near it was the Earth - fall pit ( f.n. infra ) - , the TA map locates it at grid 83 — 5351:87 below Knipe Scar .