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Survey of English Place-Names

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Smokejack Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Abinger

Etymology

Smokejack Fm is so named c. 1825 O.S. A 'smoke jack' was an apparatus for turning a roasting spit, fixed in a chimney and set in motion by the current of air passing up this (NED s. v .).Evelyn in his letter to Aubrey dated 1676 (Aubrey i, Introd.) remarks “I know not whether you took notice of the Smoke- Jack in my Brother's Kitchen-Chimbley: which has been there …near a 100 years.”