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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fox Bield

Other OS name in the Parish of Birker and Austhwaite

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) contains the Scottish and northern English bield , ' shelter, den, place of refuge . ' Cf. “ The fox will not worry near his beeld ” ( Abp . Sandys ' Sermons 1585 , quoted in NED ) .