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Fusethwaite Yeat

Other OS name in the Parish of Windermere

Historical Forms

  • Fusthwaite yeat 1838 TA

Etymology

, 1865 OS , Fusthwaite yeat 1838TA , probably ' cattle-shed clearing ' , v. -hús , þveit , cf. Fusethwaite (i, 52supra ) ; v. geat ' gate ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name