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Survey of English Place-Names

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Loftend, Loft Intake

Other OS name in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale

Historical Forms

  • Little Crowden Intake 1842 ib
  • Intake Aloft, The Loft, Loft Wood 1845 TA

Etymology

, Little Crowden Intake 1842 ib, Intake Aloft , The Loft , Loft Wood 1845TA , v. lopt ' a loft,an upper chamber ' , here used of elevated land , cf. Crowden supra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site