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Survey of English Place-Names

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Eye Spie or Dent 's Cl

Field in the Parish of Rearsby

Historical Forms

  • 1837 Valuation

Etymology

Eye Spie or Dent's Cl 1837 (perh. a humorous allusion to R. Eye, the earlier name for the whole of R. Wreake, v. Eyfurlong' in f. ns. (b) and Dent's Cl supra)