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Buttonshaw Bottom, Buttonshaw Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Hampstead Norris

Historical Forms

  • Buttons sawes Ed6 LRMB
  • Buttons Haw 1761 Rocque

Etymology

, Buttons sawes Ed 6LRMB , Buttons Haw 1761 Rocque , possibly manorial , from the surname Buttonshaw , v. Reaney s. n. Birkenshaw .