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Snout's Gap

Other OS name in the Parish of Cannock

Historical Forms

  • Snoats Gap 1841 TA

Etymology

, 1743 VCH v, 52 , Snoats Gap 1841TA , probably from ME  snote ' a piece of dry land at the edge of fens ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name