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Survey of English Place-Names

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Silver Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Ravenfield

Historical Forms

  • Glebe 1769 EnclA

Etymology

, 1764 Glebe 1769EnclA , v. seolfor , perhaps denoting ' silver coloured ' or as a surname , wudu ; it may have given its name to Silverthorpe 133supra .