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Notty Cake Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Bradley

Historical Forms

  • Notty Cake Wd 1828 Bry

Etymology

( lost ) , Notty Cake Wd 1828 Bry ; Notty Cake is not recorded in dictionaries , but MED records notti as ' nutlike in taste or colour, nutty ' , so perhaps a notty cake was ' a cake with a nutty taste ' . Its significance in f. ns . is obscure .