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Tun Stone

Other OS name in the Parish of Skipton

Historical Forms

  • Trunckstone 1615 WYD

Etymology

, possibly identical with Trunckstone 1615 WYD , ' stone resembling a tree-trunk ' , from e.ModE  tronk lit . ' something cut off ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name