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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Bent Close

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Etymology

, 1624 Greave , 1758 TaxS , cf. Bents Place 1771 M , v. beonet ' bent-grass ' , clos .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name