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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bye Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Kington Magna

Historical Forms

  • Bay 1811 OS

Etymology

, Bay 1811 OS , cf. Bye Md 1846TA , v. byge 1 ' a corner, an angle, a bend ' , perhaps with reference to a right - angled turn in the par . bdy here , or to the meandering Filley Brook .