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Survey of English Place-Names

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Flake Moss

Other OS name in the Parish of Almondbury

Historical Forms

  • Fleak Gap & Fleak Moss 1849 TA

Etymology

, Fleak Gap & Fleak Moss 1849TA , probably dial . flake in one of its senses , ' a hurdle , a temporary sheeppen , a temporary gate set up in a gap ' , v. gap , mos ' swamp ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name