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Survey of English Place-Names

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Rainster Rocks

Other OS name in the Parish of Brassington

Historical Forms

  • Rainster 1838 O

Etymology

, Rainster 1838 O , v. torr and cf. Isaac Raines 1807EnclA .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement