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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.

Allpits Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Calow

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. les Orpittes 13th Hall iii , Orl Pits 1850TA , ' orepits ' , v. ōra 2 , pytt ; there are old iron - ore workings in the neighbour - hood .