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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.

Dead Crook

Other OS name in the Parish of Dufton

Etymology

, 1859OS , v. dēad ' dead ' , commonly used in p. ns . in the sense ' no longer in use ' , especially of former courses of streams and rivers ; this name refers to a piece of reedy ground in a loop of a stream by the Tees ( v. krókr ) .