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Dog Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of South Kilworth

Etymology

, v. dag ' moisture; mire ' ; recorded as Daglane 1382 in North Kilworth ( cf. Dag Lane, Lei 4172 ) ; Dog Lane in Burton Lazars (Lei 263) is interpreted as with dogge ' a dog ' but may well conceal dag .