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Survey of English Place-Names

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Five Crosses

Other OS name in the Parish of Frodsham

Historical Forms

  • the Five Crosses 1699,1729 ib
  • the Fyve Crosses 1578 ChRR

Etymology

, the Five Crosses 1699, 1729ib , the Fyve Crosses 1578 ChRR , cf. the five Cross Fields alias Old Marled hey and little Marled Hey 1729, 1773, 1794Chol , presumably there were five crosses here , v. fīf , cros , cf. Old Marled Hey infra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name