Lychpit

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A modern suburb in Old Basing and Lychpit parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6653).

Etymology

From lych + pit, lych being from Old English lic (“corpse”), so it probably refers to a burial pit.

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