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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.

Shave Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Todber

Etymology

, cf. Gt Shave , North Shave (Md )1840TA , v. sc(e)aga ' a small wood ' , cf. the lost Catshave in the adjacent par . of Stour P . supra .