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Meergate Hedge

Other OS name in the Parish of East Halton

Etymology

( lost ) , 1824O , cf. maregathe 1260 (Hy4) GCB , (le ) maregate Hy3 (Ed1) Newh , Mere Gate 1786, 1800Yarb ; this must be ' the boundary road ' , v. (ge)mǣre , gata ; on 1824 O it forms in part the boundary between East Halton and North Killingholme .