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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.

Dodding Green

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Historical Forms

  • Doding grene c.1722 AnctHo
  • Dodding, Dodin 1558–1582 PR(K)

Etymology

, 1715 Kend iii, 136 , Doding grene c. 1722AnctHo v. grēne2, named from the Kendal and Skelsmergh familyof Dodding , Dodin 1558–1582 PR(K) 3, 6, 61, etc.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement