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Survey of English Place-Names

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Brotherton Cliff Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Brotherton

Etymology

, cf. the Cliffe field 1716Glebe , v. clif , referring to a steep wooded escarpment parallel with the R . Aire above Brotherton Ings .