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Survey of English Place-Names

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Cove Scar & Cove Hole

Other OS name in the Parish of Linton

Historical Forms

  • Cove Close & Cove Heads 1846 TA

Etymology

, Cove Close & Cove Heads 1846TA , v. cofa , here used primarily of Cove Hole in the older sense of ' hollow in a rock, cave ' , cf. Malham Cove 135infra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site