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Survey of English Place-Names

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Purse Bay & Point

Other OS name in the Parish of Barton

Historical Forms

  • Purse 1787 ClarkeM

Etymology

, Purse 1787 ClarkeM , cf. Pursey parrock 1839TA , a small circular bay and spit of land in Ullswater , doubtless so called from a resemblance in shape to a purse .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name