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Survey of English Place-Names

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Reign

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Far & Narr Rayne 1676 HAS

Etymology

, Far & Narr Rayne 1676 HAS15, 255 , v. reinn ' boundary strip ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name