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Survey of English Place-Names

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Big Cross Graves & Little Cross Graves

Field in the Parish of Burton

Historical Forms

  • 1843 TA

Etymology

Big Cross Graves & Little Cross Graves(a groupof fields about 109–319739;'fields or lands called Graves, which lie athwart',v. cros, grǣfe, distinguished from Copgraves supra, which were at a'copp'or hill. These f.ns. may represent a vestige of Greves in Puddington 215infra, cf. Copgrave 216 infra)