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Survey of English Place-Names

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Upper Rakes

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkheaton

Historical Forms

  • (the) Rakes 1652,1726 WB39,106

Etymology

, (the ) Rakes 1652, 1726WB 39, 106 , cf. also (le ) Rakerod (e )13, 1331 Font , v. hraca , dial . rake ' a roughpath ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name