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Survey of English Place-Names

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Read's Island

Other OS name in the Parish of South Ferriby

Etymology

( mostly in Winteringham parish ) , “ About 200 acres of this bank has been recently warped and embanked , and is now called Read 's Island , being taken on a long lease from the Crown , by Mr . R.A . Read , of Burton Stather ” 1842 White .