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Gough's Shoot

Other OS name in the Parish of Steeple

Historical Forms

  • Calfshoot 1842 TA

Etymology

, Calfshoot (Plant .) 1842TA , ' steep slope used by calves ' , v. calf , scēot 3 , cf. Do dial . shoot ' a steep hill, or the road down it ' ( Barnes 98 ) and Shoot Md infra .