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Survey of English Place-Names

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Wakebarrow

Other OS name in the Parish of Heversham

Etymology

, 1857OS , probably this and Wakeburgh (i, 61supra ) mean ' look-out hill ' , v. wacu , beorg .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site