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Wadsworth Banks

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Waddesworth bankes 1546 WillY
  • Wadsworthebancke 1593 ib
  • Banckes 1649 HAS

Etymology

, 1627FGr 2 , Waddesworth bankes 1546 WillY,Wadsworthebancke 1593 ib, Banckes 1649 HAS 14, 146–7 , v. Wadsworth 199infra , banke ; this part of Mytholmroyd township north of the R . Calder was formerly in Wadsworth .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name