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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fothergill Sike

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen

Historical Forms

  • -beck(e) 1636,1652 BdyR(M.3,4) 1684 Dd

Etymology

, -beck (e )1636, 1652BdyR (M. 3, 4), 1684Dd , ' ravine which provided fodder ' , v. fóðr , gil .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site