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Survey of English Place-Names

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Great Drift

Other OS name in the Parish of Grasby

Historical Forms

  • Drift 1707,1724 Terrier
  • ye Great Drift 1745 Terrier
  • the great drift 1762,1781 ib

Etymology

( lost ) , 1828 Bry , Drift 1707, 1724Terrier , y e Great Drift 1745Terrier ,the great drift 1762, 1781ib , cf. the North drift 1699MiscDon 275 , from drift ' a cattle-road ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement