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Survey of English Place-Names

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Rear Clouts

Early-attested site in the Parish of Burnsall

Historical Forms

  • Roarer-louts (sic) 1576 Wheater
  • Rearecloutes 1613 Grainge

Etymology

Rear Clouts, 1767 Comm, Roarer-louts (sic)1576 Wheater, Rearecloutes 1613 Grainge 83, probably a compound of ON  hreyrr 'cairn, heap of stones forming a boundary mark' and OE  clūd 'rock, mass of rocks'; it marked the boundary between the Forest of Knaresborough and Craven.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name