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Survey of English Place-Names

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Stitchen Mine

Other OS name in the Parish of Middleton by Wirksworth

Historical Forms

  • Stytchinge Gange 1576 CPG

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Stytchinge Gange 1576CPG , perhaps from stycce ' piece of land ' and eng or sticce 2 ' sticky ' ; v. gang , in this example a lead - mine .