Meaning:
river name Fal
Goss Moor (EN) / Hal Gors / Kors Fala (KW)
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Notes:
The second element may have been meur ‘great’, OE mere ‘wetland’, or OE mōr ‘moor, upland, fen’. There was not enough information to answer this definitively.
Elements notes:
hal 'moor' + Fowi river name + kors 'reeds'
Historic forms:
Corsfala 1426, Gorsmor 1444, and Gorsemore 1492–1493.