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Pecket Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Pecket Clough 1769 Wad
  • the Pecket 1771 ib

Etymology

, 1808 Stansf , Pecket Clough 1769 Wad 100, the Pecket 1771 ib 106 ; a local tradition associates this spring with St Thomas á Becket .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement