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Survey of English Place-Names

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Carterclose Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Historical Forms

  • Carter 1587,1592 PR(K)

Etymology

, 1857 OS , probably named from a member of the Kendal family of Carter (1587, 1592 PR(K) 134, 239) , v. close .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name