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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cliburn Bridge, Hall, Mill, Mill Bridge, & Moss

Other OS name in the Parish of Cliburn

Historical Forms

  • The Hall 1672 NWm
  • Cliburn(e) Hall c.1722 AnctHo 1791 PR
  • Moss 1843 TA

Etymology

( 1679 NWm 11 , cf. also ib 293 ) ( The Hall 1672 NWm 295, Cliburn (e ) Hall c. 1722AnctHo , 1791 PR , originally a peel tower erected in 1387 , cf. NWm 293 ) ( 1777 M ) ( ' erected over the Lyvennett at the Mill ' in 1757 NWm294 ) ( 1865 OS , Moss 1843TA , v. mos ' bog ' ) .

Places in the same Parish