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Gospel Greave

Other OS name in the Parish of Green Fairfield

Historical Forms

  • a Greene Thorne tree called Gosspell greaue and there the minister did reade a Gospell to the village or Hamblett of Cowlowe 1666 Dep

Etymology

( lost ) , a Greene Thorne tree called Gosspell greaue and there the minister did reade a Gospell to the village or Hamblett of Cowlowe 1666Dep , v. gospel ( n ) , grǣfe .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement