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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Drake Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Acton

Etymology

, probably an aphetic form from The Rake Lane with a reduced def . art . , v. rake ' a narrow path, a lane ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site