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Survey of English Place-Names

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Wintour's Leap

Other OS name in the Parish of Tidenham

Historical Forms

  • Winless-leap 1777 M

Etymology

, 1830 M , Winless-leap 1777 M , named from a local story of Sir John Winter of Lydney , the local Royalist leader who escaped capture by a prodigious leap on horseback down the steep declivity here ( cf. BG xviii, 103 ) .