County | Cumberland |
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Transcript | [Grey]stok |
Icon description | single building |
Icons |
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Description | faded |
Appearances |
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Etymology | OW creic, 'hill' + OE stoc, 'place' |
Translation | |
Earlier editors | Greystok (OS 1935, Parsons) |
Early Maps | Grai(n)stok (Angliae Figura) |
Overwritten | no |
Attested spelling | Greystok 1289 Pap; 1323, 1327, 1359 Ipm; most of the early forms (12th-14th centuries) show an initial C- and may probably be taken as representing local pronunciation |