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Mutton Hole

Other OS name in the Parish of Edmondsham

Etymology

, like Gipsies' Pit supra , a pit on the par . bdy , v. hol 1 ; Mutton is probably a surname , cf. Richard Moton 1332SR ( Holt ) .