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Survey of English Place-Names

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St Luke's Church

Other OS name in the Parish of Wistow

Historical Forms

  • Church (StLuke) 1846,1863,1877 White 1915 Kelly
  • capellam de Neuton 1220 MHW
  • the Chappel 1708 Terrier 18

Etymology

, Church (StLuke )1846,1863, 1877 White, 1915 Kelly; it is earlier recorded as capellam de Neuton 1220 MHW (with MLat  capella 'a chapel'), the Chappel 1708(18) Terrier , v. chapel(e) . Newton Harcourt was a chapelry of Wistow .