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Devils Wood Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Mappowder

Etymology

, cf. (the water in ) Evills Wood 1602, 1655Bundy , Evils Wood 1811 OS , Evils Wood Cowleaze 1841TA , probably from ǣwiell ' source of a stream ' , with reference to the small stream ( no doubt the water of 1602 ) rising just W of the lane , cf . The Evils Brk 530 .