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Survey of English Place-Names

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Mill Bank(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Frodsham

Historical Forms

  • Windmill Hill 1697 Chol

Etymology

( lost ) , 1831 Bry , Windmill Hill 1697Chol , cf. superior molendinum c.1312Chol , le Mydelmullene 1360Chamb ( a water - mill ) , the Upper Mill , the Milles of Frodsham 1611Chol , Frodesham Milnes 1655ib , and le Milnefeld '1321AddCh , 1349ib , le Mulnefeld 1341, 1357Chol , Little Millmedow 1700ib , Great Mill Pool 1702ib , from myln , wind-mylne , and banke , hyll , middel , feld , mǣd , pōl 1 , and upper .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name