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Dropping Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Knaresborough

Etymology

, 1577 Holinshed , 1771 M , a petri - fying well , ' in quam quicquid ligni immittitur , lapideo cortice breui obduci et lapidescere obseruatum est ' ( 1590 Camd 564 ) , cf. also Hargrove 40, Spad 75 ff .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name