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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Foul Loaning

Other OS name in the Parish of Alston

Historical Forms

  • Fowle Loning 1631 Derwent
  • Foule Loaning 1695 ib

Etymology

is Fowle Loning 1631Derwent , Foule Loaning 1695 ib . ' Dirty lane , ' v. fūl , lonning .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement