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Survey of English Place-Names

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Flake Howe(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Bampton

Historical Forms

  • -how 1658,1706 PR 1727 PR(Sh) 1823 M
  • Fleck How 1829 Dir

Etymology

( lost ) , -how 1658, 1706 PR,1727 PR(Sh), 1823 M, Fleck How 1829 Dir , now submerged in Hawes Water ( grid 83 – 473123 ) , ON  flaki ' hurdle ' ( cf. Flakebridgeii, 43supra ) , v. haugr .