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Dropping Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Heversham

Etymology

, 1857OS , ' a spring called the dropping well , which is of petrifying quality ' 1777 NB 208 ( cf. Dropping Well YW v, 114 ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site