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Survey of English Place-Names

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Adderley Drain

Other OS name in the Parish of Peterborough

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . This probably takes its name from a Mr Adderley who reclaimed marshes in the district in the early 19th cent. ( W . T . M . ) . Cf. Mr Adderley 's private road (1812Fenland NQ ii) .