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Survey of English Place-Names

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Watson's Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Heversham

Historical Forms

  • Watson 1599–1695 PR

Etymology

, named from the local family of Watson (1599–1695 PR 25, 109, 119) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site