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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Dauby Wath

Other OS name in the Parish of Ormside

Etymology

, 1859 05 , cf. Dowbysike 1684BdyR , v. vað ' ford ' , the first el . may be a p.n. Dalby ' valleyfarm ' ( v. dalr , bȳ ) or a surname from it .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement