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Wades Gate(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Eastham

Etymology

( lost , 109–365796 ) , 1831Bry , at the boundary of Eastham and Hooton , cf. 191infra , probably from geat ' a gateway ' and the pers. n. or surname Wade .