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Whitaker Pits

Other OS name in the Parish of Dewsbury

Historical Forms

  • Whitacre Pitts 1669 ib

Etymology

, 1736 PRHtsd , Whitacre Pitts 1669 ib , probably the surname Whitaker , pytt ' a (coal) pit ' .