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Survey of English Place-Names

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Leather Tor

Other OS name in the Parish of Walkhampton

Historical Forms

  • Lodertorre 1317 Pat

Etymology

is Lodertorre 1317 Pat (p) and is probably of the same origin as Laughter Tor supra 195 , the vowel of the early form being a scribal error .