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Survey of English Place-Names

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Tan Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Bourton

Etymology

, possibly to be associated with Tannehous 1475, 1501, Tanhous 1475GillCt , an early instance of tanhouse ' a building in which tanning iscarried on ' .