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Survey of English Place-Names

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Town End, Town Yeat

Other OS name in the Parish of Heversham

Historical Forms

  • Town(e)yeat(e) 1535 Kendii,97 1669 PR 1631–1769

Etymology

( 1535 Kend ii, 98 , 1632 PR et freq to 1738Rent 1 ) ( Town (e )yeat (e )1535 (1669) Kendii, 97, 1631–1769 PRfreq ) , v. tūn ( ME  toun ) , ende , geat , cf. ChurchTown (supra ) ; Town Yeat is on the Underbarrow boundary .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site