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Survey of English Place-Names

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Setcops

Other OS name in the Parish of North Kelsey

Etymology

, cf. the great setcops ,little setcops , vpp settcops 1673Nelthorpe , Greate Settcops , Little Settcops , Upper Settcops 1684ib , great settcopps , litle settcops , upper Sett Copps 1685ib , Lower Sett copps 1687Dixon , from set-copp probably in the sense ' a flat-topped hill ' .