English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Greengate

Other OS name in the Parish of Bampton

Historical Forms

  • le Grengate 1285–90 Lowth

Etymology

, 1682, 1706 PR , le Grengate 1285–90Lowth , ' green lane ' , v. grēne 1 , gata .