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Cannybrow Foot

Other OS name in the Parish of Burton (detached)

Historical Forms

  • Canyard-brow 1717 Will

Etymology

, 1857OS , Canyard-brow 1717 Will , possibly similar to Canyards (YW i, 232) , which could be a variant of ME  coninger ' rabbit-warren ' ( OFr  coninière ) .