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Survey of English Place-Names

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The Shoal

Other OS name in the Parish of Irstead

Etymology

, ' a place where the water is of little depth , a sandbank ' , usually derived from the OE adj . *sc(e)ald , used as a noun for ' a shallow ' ; v. OED s.v shoal sb .