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Survey of English Place-Names

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Gap (Wood)

Other OS name in the Parish of Dent

Historical Forms

  • (ye) Gap(p) 1616,1620,1677 PR
  • Gape in Dent 1653 ib

Etymology

, (y e) Gap (p )1616,1620, 1677 PR, Gape in Dent 1653 ib , v. gap ' an opening in a fence,etc., a pass ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement