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Longrose Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Kniveton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. le Long (e )rowes , Long (e )roues c. 1300, Ed 1Kniveton , c. 1300, 1318BelCh , ' long rows ' , v. lang , rāw , but it is impossible to say to what they refer .