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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Tong's Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Beckingham

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. le Tonges , le farre tonges t. Hy 6Newstead , v. tunge infra 291 . Possibly ' tongues of land , ' though the application of the name is not clear .

Places in the same Parish