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Survey of English Place-Names

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Water Turn

Other OS name in the Parish of Ashburton

Historical Forms

  • Watertorne 1553 Pat

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Watertorne 1553 Pat . The turn is presumably the crossroads here . There is no water here but there is a small valley with a stream just to the south .