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Greaves Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Lonsdale

Historical Forms

  • Greaves 1841 TA

Etymology

, 1865 OS , Greaves 1841TA , v. grǣfe ' copse ' ( or a surn . from it ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site