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Short's Corner

Other OS name in the Parish of Linton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. (le ) Short (e )wo (o )d (e )1279 RH, 1522–3Pembroke , 1531–8WMP , Shortwood corner 1765, 1768Pembroke . Shortwood Corner would seem to have been simplified to Short 's Corner .