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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fair Sleets Gate

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Malham

Etymology

, probably from slæget ' a sheep pasture ' ( cf. In Sleets 122supra ) , as it is on a steep rocky hill - side .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site