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Full record: <span class="tip" title="Warter Cartulary, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 9">Warter</span>

County Yorkshire
Transcript w[at]er
Icon description spired church
Icons
  • church
Description faded
Appearances
  • faded
Etymology OE wearg + t.ēow, 'felon's tree' or 'gallows'
Translation
Earlier editors wartre (OS 1935); Watre (Parsons)
Early Maps
Overwritten no
Attested spelling Wartre 1086 DB; no spellings without -r-