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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cutthroat Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Derwent

Etymology

, 1840 O , reminiscent of some earlier tragedy , perhaps the one noted in a deposition c. 1635 . ' Found a man with a wound in his throat in Eashaw Clough . … carried him to the house at the Lady Bower half a mile from the Clough ' Clarion xxvi . The bridge is at the foot of Highshaw Clough .