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Survey of English Place-Names

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Coalpit Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Crosby Ravensworth

Etymology

, 1859OS , v. col 1 , pytt , hyll ; local colliers are mentioned several times between 1621 and 1736 , when one John Richardson was ' killed in a coal-shaft ' ( PR 254, etc. ) .