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Cleygate Barn and Common

Other OS name in the Parish of Ash

Historical Forms

  • Claygate 1255 Ass
  • Cleygate 1399,1475 Pat

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) are Claygate 1255Ass , Cleygate 1399, 1475 Pat . Cf. Claygate supra 91 . It is near the spot where the Bagshot sand area gives way to the London clay .