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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.

Back Dale Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Hassop

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. Backdale c. 1240BelCh , perhaps ' valleybeneath the ridge ' , v. bæc , dæl 1 ; for a similar sense cf. Bacup (PNLa 92–3) .