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Thread #36713   Message #3460903
Posted By: GUEST
03-Jan-13 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: Folklore/language: Of snickets and ginnels
Subject: RE: Of snickets and ginnels
'Lokes' presumably from latin 'locus'=a place. A couple of them in Walsham, also Norfolk, e.g. 'Bank Loke'. In the Midlands this might be 'Bank Passage'.

'Loke (loc?)' is in common use on the railway for the site of trackside equipment, probably here short for 'location', but ultimately from the same source.