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Gudgins's Banks

Other OS name in the Parish of Leigh

Etymology

, 1870 Hutch3 , described op. cit. as the remains of an old encampment ' so called , as tradition says , from the forces encamped there having been commanded by one Gudgins ' , v. banke .