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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Keer Holme

Other OS name in the Parish of Burton

Historical Forms

  • Keerholm middow 1698 Glebe
  • Kearholm 1732 Rent2

Etymology

( chiefly in La ) , Keerholm middow 1698Glebe , Kearholm 1732Rent 2 , v. Keer (i, 8supra ) , holmr ' water-meadow ' .