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Bath Vale

Other OS name in the Parish of Astbury

Etymology

, cf. Bath Wood 1840TA , 1842 OS , and The Bath 1882 Orm2 iii42 , a mineral spring in a coppice , good for scrofula and scorbutic cases , probably fons Sancti Oswaldi 1300 AD ' St Oswald's spring ' , v. bæð , val , wudu .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site