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Brackenber Flodders & Moor

Other OS name in the Parish of Appleby St Michael

Etymology

( 1859OS , a moorland enclosure ) ( 1863 OS ) , Flodders being a form of Nb , Cu dial . flother ' a boggy spot, swamp ' , connected with Cu , La dial . flodder ' to stop up a watercourse ' and the OE flōdor ' channel ' in Flodder Beck and Flodder Hall ( i , 7 , 83 supra ) ; v. also mōr , and Brackenber (supra ) .