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Survey of English Place-Names

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Narrator

Other OS name in the Parish of Sheepstor

Historical Forms

  • Narrow Tor 1827 G

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Narrow Tor 1827 G . The farm lies on the north side of Sheeps Tor and probably goes back to a ME  Bynorthetorre , ' north of the tor , ' v. supra xxxvii .