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Survey of English Place-Names

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Snapes

Other OS name in the Parish of Ellerton

Historical Forms

  • Northsnapp 1252 FF

Etymology

( field ) is Northsnapp 1252 FF . ME  snape ' winter-pasture , ' a word of Scandinavian origin ( v. PN La 17 , and cf. Snape, PN NRY 229 ) .

Places in the same Parish