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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.

Snape Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Milford

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. le Snape (s )1415DuLaMB , 1482MinAcct , 1596DuLa , ' boggy patch of ground ' , v. snæp .