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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cat St

Other OS name in the Parish of Steventon

Historical Forms

  • Cattestrete 1424–5 WAM
  • Catstrete 1461–2 ib
  • Catty Streate 1590–1 ib

Etymology

, Cattestrete 1424–5WAM ,Catstrete 1461–2ib , Catty Streate 1590–1ib , v. cat(t) , cf. Cat St in Oxford, O 38 .