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Survey of English Place-Names

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Blue Brake Plant

Other OS name in the Parish of Giggleswick

Historical Forms

  • Blue Breaks 1845 TA

Etymology

. , Blue Breaks 1845TA , v. bræc 1 , dial . breck ' uncultivated strip ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name