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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.

Mossley

Other OS name in the Parish of Penistone

Historical Forms

  • Mosley Edge 1695 Hntii,360

Etymology

, Mosley Edge 1695 Hnt ii, 360 , ' bogclearing ' , v. mos , lēah , cf. Moseley ii, 48infra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name