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Survey of English Place-Names

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Law's Lawn

Other OS name in the Parish of King's Cliffe

Historical Forms

  • the Laund t.Jas1 WoodsRept
  • Lawe 1605 HMCBuccleuchiii

Etymology

is the Laund t. Jas 1 Woods Rept, and is to be associatedwith the family of William Lawe (1605 HMC Buccleuch iii) , an ancestor of William Law , the author of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life . For ' laund ' v. Wakefield supra 105 .