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Survey of English Place-Names

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Neat Marsh

Other OS name in the Parish of Preston

Historical Forms

  • Notmersk 1344 Poulson
  • Neat Marsh 1605 ib

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Notmersk 1344 Poulson,Neat Marsh 1605 ib . From OScand  naut ' cattle , ' later replaced by the English neat ; mersk is Scandinavianised from mersc .