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Tugdale Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Nettleton

Etymology

, cf. Tugedale e13HarlCh , Tughedale eHy3HarlCh , Tugdale eHy3HarlCh , 1242HarlCh , togdaylheueddallyth 1245HarlCh ( v. hēafod , deill , hlið 1 or hlið 2 ' a slope ' ) , Tugg Dale 1825BC , perhaps , as Dr John Insley suggests , the first el . is an unrecorded OE  pers.n. *Tugga , adduced for Tughall (PN NbDu201) , the second being deill ' a share of land ' .