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Survey of English Place-Names

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Sluice Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Thorne

Historical Forms

  • the slewse at Thorn 1697 Pryme

Etymology

, the slewse at Thorn 1697 Pryme167 , cf. Sluice Common 1841TA , alluding to a sluice ( ME  scluse ) in the drainage .