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Knob's Crook

Other OS name in the Parish of Woodlands

Etymology

, probably an allusion to the sharply curved ridge at Peat's Hillinfra , from knob ' a knoll ' and crōc ' a bend ' , cf. Knobcrook in Wimborne M . par . supra .