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Meadowgrain Clough

Other OS name in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale

Historical Forms

  • Meadow Grain 1842 ib

Etymology

, Meadow Grain 1842 ib , v. mǣd , grein ( dial . grain ) ' a smallvalley forking off from another ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site