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Survey of English Place-Names

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Millrough Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Lydney

Etymology

, 1840TA , ( the ) Mylle Rooffe , Mylle Rough , Mylle Rowghe , a grove 1559, 1565GR 421 , cf. Overmyll 1559 ib ; e.ModE  rough is used of ' rough ground , esp . a slope covered with undergrowth or trees ' ( NED s.v . ) .