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Chapel Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Runcorn

Etymology

, cf. Chapelfelde 1538AOMB 399 , Chapell Heye 1547AddCh , the great Chappel hey 1679 Sheaf , Chapel Lane & Chapel Plantation 1831 Bry, 1843TA , named from the chapel of Aston built in 1425 to replace Middleton Chapel supra , and replaced by a new one near Aston Hall , t. Henry VIII , cf. ChetOS viii354 , v. feld , (ge)hæg , cf. Chapel Lane182infra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site