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Bubwith Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Pontefract

Etymology

, crossing ' the beke that goos fro Baghill brige to Bubw t house oppon the northe ' 1521 Test vi ; cf. Bubwith Ho 67supra . Both are named from the family of Bubwith known in Pontefract from the fifteenth century ( TestLds xxvi, 181, etc. ) , v. brycg .