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Survey of English Place-Names

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Tom Smith's Leap

Other OS name in the Parish of Dalston

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . “ The traditional name of the rock … one Smith being pursued for some felonious action resolutely leaped down from its top and was killed ” ( H ii , 441 ) .