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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

The Batts

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Malzeard

Etymology

, 1680YAS Md 15 ; since this now refers to a wooded slope on the bank of the R . Ure it may be dial . bat in the sense ' river-island ' ; there is an island in the river at this point .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site