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Survey of English Place-Names

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Long Grough, Short Grough

Other OS name in the Parish of Penistone

Etymology

; the el . grough occurs in several minor names in the moorlands of YW and is doubtless ON  gróf ' a stream, the hollow which a stream makes ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name