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Survey of English Place-Names

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the Screed

Other OS name in the Parish of Usselby

Etymology

, 1894ib , from screed ' a narrowstrip of land ' , v. NED sb I , 1b and cf. Long Screed in Cadney, PNL 278 ; it is in fact a narrow plantation .