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Filance Bridge & Filance Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Penkridge

Historical Forms

  • Fylands Lane 1814 EnclA

Etymology

, Fylands Lane 1814EnclA , cf. le f (f )ylond 1538, 1541Ct , Fylands 1841TA , ' openselions, tracts of unenclosed arable ' , v. field-lands ModE , filands ModE dial . , cf. Ch 5178 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site