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Survey of English Place-Names

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Stump Cross

Other OS name in the Parish of Ferry Fryston

Historical Forms

  • le Stub crosse 1475 TestLds

Etymology

, 1841O.S. , cf. novam crucem ' new cross ' 1235 Pont , le Stub crosse 1475TestLds , v. stubb , cros , a boundary cross between Ferrybridge and Pontefract , of which the stump remains ( cf. Pont i, 199 , n. 3 ) .