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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.

Frog Hall

Other OS name in the Parish of Ridlington

Etymology

, 1961Sale , cf. Frog Lands 1943Map . The site lies between R . Chater and a tributary stream , so the presence of frogs is not unexpected , but whether hall is an ironical development of halh ' a water-meadow, a nook of land ' is uncertain , v. frogga .