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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Wear Cliffs

Other OS name in the Parish of Stanton St Gabriel

Etymology

, 1840TA , cf. Wear (Plot )ib , probably ware ' sheep walk ' , v. 161 .