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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fighting Cocks P.H.

Other OS name in the Parish of Middleton St George

Etymology

: a well - known pub name , cf. PubN 90 , but there may be reference to the family of Cocks who held land here in the 19th cent. , VCH III 296 .