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Survey of English Place-Names

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Skulking Dudley Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Clapton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is to be associated with some member of the Dudley family , who held a manor here in the 14th cent. (VCH iii, 125–6) . According to local tradition the family was hunchbacked .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement