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Survey of English Place-Names

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Low Borrow Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Orton

Etymology

, 1679 NWm 11 ( cf. also op. cit 203 ) , this bridge , which carried the Roman road across Borrow Beck ( Road II , i , 19 supra ) , is named from the Roman fort there ( grid 89 – 609013 ) , cf. Borrowdale (i, 138supra ) ; remains of the foundations of the Roman bridge have been found ( CW vii, 90, viii, 1 ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement