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Survey of English Place-Names

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Sweet Bits Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Knaresborough

Historical Forms

  • Swete bittes 1617 Comm
  • Sweet Bits 1846 TA

Etymology

, Swete bittes 1617Comm , Sweet Bits 1846TA ' sweet plots of ground ' , v. swēte , bita .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name