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Survey of English Place-Names

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Asket Dub

Other OS name in the Parish of Asby

Historical Forms

  • Assegate 13 Ch 1294

Etymology

, 1859OS , Assegate 13 (1294) Ch , probably ' ash-tree road ' , v. æsc , askr , gata , or possibly the first el . is an elliptical form of Asby ; it is a pool ( v. dubb ) on a lane to Asby .