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Survey of English Place-Names

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Needlehole

Other OS name in the Parish of Withington

Historical Forms

  • Needleshole 1814 Rogers 1819 EnclA

Etymology

, 1830 M , Needleshole 1814Rogers , 1819EnclA , the first el . is probably an adaptation to names like Needles Hole (ii, 38infra ) of the p.n. Neatley ( 153 supra ) , which is in the immediate vicinity , v. hol 1 .