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Survey of English Place-Names

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Plaster Pit Barn

Other OS name in the Parish of Burton on the Wolds

Historical Forms

  • the Plaster Pitt 1694 Reeve
  • Plaister Pitts 1700 Deed
  • Plaster Pitt 1701 Terrier

Etymology

, the Plaster Pitt 1694Reeve , Plaister Pitts 1700Deed , Plaster Pitt 1701Terrier , cf. Plaster Pitt Lane 1701ib , v. plaster , pytt ; a site of the extraction of gypsum , v. Field 227 .