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Silly How

Other OS name in the Parish of Portisham

Etymology

, obscure like the no doubt analogous TA f.n. Silly Hoe in Winterborne St M . par . 1 378 , but cf. ModE  silly-how ' a child's caul ' ( 1574 NED , mainly N dial . ) .