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Survey of English Place-Names

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Slight Marsh

Other OS name in the Parish of Burstwick

Historical Forms

  • Sl(e)ight Marshe 1583,1620 FF

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Sl (e )ight Marshe 1583,1620 FF . v. sletta , ' level field . '