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Whiteshard Bottom

Other OS name in the Parish of Mildenhall

Etymology

. Cf. White shurde 1591 WM vi . v. sceard , ' gap , ' and infra 445 . There is a long dyke which crosses this bottom in chalky ground ( H . C . B . ) .