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Crooks Barn

Other OS name in the Parish of Horton in Ribblesdale

Historical Forms

  • the Ouer Crookes, the Nether Crookes 1637,1691 YASDd

Etymology

, the Ouer Crookes ,the Nether Crookes 1637, 1691YAS Dd 104 , cf. also Crokesholm 1267Font , v. krókr ' crook, bend ' ( here a bend in the R . Ribble ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement