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Wharncliffe Lodge

Other OS name in the Parish of Tankersley

Historical Forms

  • Warncliffe Lodge 1726 YDr 1817 M

Etymology

, 1822 Langd , Warncliffe Lodge 1726 YDr, 1817 M , v. loge , Wharncliffe supra ; Sir Thomas Wortley had “ a loge ” made here in Wharncliffe Chase in 1510 (Hnt ii, 314, 329) .