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.
Survey of English place-names
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Moorland Close
Moorland Close
Early-attested site in the Parish of Eaglesfield
Historical Forms
Mourland
1332
SR
Moorland Close
1749
CW(OS)iv
Etymology
v.
mōr
,
land
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Cumelkeldfot
Sneckyeat Plantation
Southwaite (in Blindbothel parish) and Southwaite Mill
Major Settlement
Eaglesfield