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Slaughter Gap

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Slaughter 1797 Surv

Etymology

, Slaughter 1797Surv ; there is a tradition of finds of fragments of Cromwellian gun - barrels in the district to which the name is thought to refer ( HAS 16, 255 ff ) , but probably it is from slāh-trēow ' sloetree ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name