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Survey of English Place-Names

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Sweet Waterings

Other OS name in the Parish of Elberton

Historical Forms

  • Sweet Watering 1830 M

Etymology

, Sweet Watering 1830 M , a ditch , ModE  watering ' ditch for draininga marsh ' ( cf. NED s.v. 19 ) .