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Anshaw Clough

valley · Blackburn with Darwen

Old EnglishAI-generated

Anshaw Clough likely means 'the ash tree clearing's ravine'. It combines an Old English personal name or a word for ash trees with a word for a clearing, followed by a Norse term for a ravine.

Word origins

Anshaw
Old Englishash tree clearing(from æsc "ash tree", hēaw "clearing, wood-cutting")
Clough
Old Norseravine, gorge(from klǫf "ravine, cleft")