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Survey of English Place-Names

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High & Low Bakestones

Other OS name in the Parish of Windermere

Historical Forms

  • ye Backstones 1764 Ambls

Etymology

, ye Backstones 1764 Ambls 16 , v. bæc-stān ' baking-stone ' , in p. ns . usually indicating places where such stones were got .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name