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Survey of English Place-Names

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Hay Tongue

Other OS name in the Parish of Kettlewell

Historical Forms

  • (the) Haytongue Wood(e) 1663,1764 Glebe

Etymology

, (the ) Haytongue Wood (e )1663, 1764Glebe , v. hēg ' hay ' , tunge ' tongue of land, projecting strip ' .