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Dog Pots Plant

Other OS name in the Parish of Nidd

Historical Forms

  • Dog Pits 1842 TA

Etymology

. , Dog Pits 1842TA , v. dogga , pytt ; it occurs also as a f.n. 86 supra , and presumably denoted a pit frequented by dogs .