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Originally Posted by susie123

I get what you are saying Walter but surely a place name important enough to be on an 1840s map would have been around longer than a clergyman's mishearing in 1783.

Ged off thats 53 years lots of things can be put on maps if they are refered to by that name.
I have quite a few old maps, and if you look at the small print at the bottom, you will see the surveying was done by army engineers. Names were supplied by local knowledge. When they were surveying the engineers would'nt know the names of the places they were setting up their theodolites on.
Those army men did not draw the maps, all their findings were sent to the cartographers, who then drew the maps, and added place names. The 1848 Ordnance survey of Accrington contains 27 mistakes.
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