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Survey of English Place-Names

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Baxter's Carr

Other OS name in the Parish of Horning

Etymology

, cf. Will . Bakester (of Crostwight) 1330SR ( v. Reaney s.n. , from OE bæcestre , fem . of bæcere ' baker ' but used chiefly of men and found mostly in the Anglian counties , and kjarr ) .