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Full record: Market Harborough
| County | Leicestershire |
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| Transcript | [har]borowe |
| Icon description | single building |
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| Description | faded |
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| Etymology | possibly ON hafri, 'oats' + beorg, 'hill' |
| Translation | |
| Earlier editors | harborowe (OS 1935, Parsons) |
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| Overwritten | no |
| Attested spelling | Har(e)berowe 1444 MktHPR, Harborowe 1459 Wyg; the first element appears as Haver-/Hauer- until 1250, and the second element as -berg in various spellings until 1444 |
