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Survey of English Place-Names

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Puddle Dock Dairy Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Preston

Etymology

, a name probably analogous with the f.n. Paddle Dock in Corfe C . par . supra q. v. ; the place is on a small stream , but ' muddy pool where a boat could rest ' looks less appropriate here than for the Corfe name , v. puddel , dock .