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Chit Weir

Other OS name in the Parish of Tidenham

Etymology

, from OE  cȳtwer ' a weir for catching fish ' , a term used of the weirs in the Severn and the Wye in the Tidenham charter ( ASChart cix ) ; this one is in the Wye ; on the origin of cyt v. Addenda .