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Survey of English Place-Names

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South Skree

Other OS name in the Parish of Toft Newton

Etymology

, on the boundary with Faldingworth LWR , presumably for screed ' a narrow strip of land ' , v. NED sb . I , ib , since both South Skree and West Skree, infra , are narrow strips of plantation .