[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
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Full record: Wakefield
| County | Yorkshire |
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| Transcript | wakefeld |
| Icon description | single building |
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| Description | faded |
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| Etymology | OE wacu, 'a watch, wake' + feld, 'field'; open land where a festival took place (?) |
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| Early Maps | waxfeld (Angliae Figura) |
| Overwritten | no |
| Attested spelling | Wakefeld(a) 1091-7 YCh viii |
