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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cleeve Cottage, Cleeve Hill and Cleeve Wd

Other OS name in the Parish of Lambourn

Historical Forms

  • Cleve, Cleve Copse 1830 OS
  • Cleeve, Cleeve Hill 1848 TA

Etymology

, Cleve , Cleve Copse 1830 OS, Cleeve , Cleeve Hill 1848TA , v. clif , here in the sense ' steep hill-slope ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement