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Survey of English Place-Names

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Hook Moor

Other OS name in the Parish of Sherburn in Elmet

Etymology

, 1817 M , v. hōc ' hook,angle ' , probably here alluding to the angle formed by the junction of the two great roads from the south or a triangular projection of the township boundary .