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Survey of English Place-Names

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Pothooks Brook

Other OS name in the Parish of Penkridge

Etymology

, from potte ' a deep hole in a river-bed ' with hōc ' a spit of land in a river-bend ' , but this has been corrupted to an association with pot-hook NED which is irrelevant .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site