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Survey of English Place-Names

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Standingstone

Other OS name in the Parish of Wetheral

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is on the parish boundary and must once have been a boundary stone . Cf. a Standing Stone called Heard -How -Stone c. 1683MH .