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ABSTRACT IN the review of “Cleator and Cleator Moor” in NATURE of November 16 the interpretation of _Linethwaite as flax-field_ (Lin + thveit) is taken as inevitable because of the


contiguity of a flax-mill. But history, which cannot be ignored in explaining placenames, does not agree with this solution of the word. The flax-mill has been on this site only about a


century. On the exact site of the flax-mill a hundred years ago there stood six conical iron-smelting furnaces. But the field name _Linethwaite_ has been here for hundreds of years.


Something, therefore, may be said for Lin = Linde, or lime-tree; thwaite = a clearing: the clearing in the lime-trees. The whole district was once forest, and, from time to time, it has been


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ARTICLE CAINE, C. The Name “Linethwaite”. _Nature_ 98, 290 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098290b0 Download citation * Issue Date: 14 December 1916 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098290b0


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