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Survey of English Place-Names

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Lake Copse, Lake Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Thornford

Etymology

( 1811 OS ) , cf. claus ' apud Lake , claus ' vocat ' Lake 1563Digby , and nearby fields called Gt Lake , Lt Lake 1849TA , v. lacu ' stream ' , with reference to an affluent of R . Yeo ; in spite of Fägersten 221 , this name is not to be connected with either of the andlang lace boundary marks of the Bradford A . charter , v. Forsberg 6 .