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Shepway

Shepway proper noun: a suburb in Maidstone, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7753).

Proper noun

Shepway

  1. a suburb in Maidstone, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7753)
  2. the former name for Folkestone and Hythe district in Kent, which was renamed in April 2018

Origin of Shepway

The name is recorded in 1227 as Shepweye, meaning "route for sheep", and later as Shepway. Equivalent to sheep + way.

Questions about Shepway

What does Shepway mean?
Shepway means a suburb in Maidstone, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7753).
What part of speech is Shepway?
Shepway is a proper noun.

Words near Shepway in the dictionary

  1. shepster time
  2. shepsters
  3. Shepton Mallet
  4. Shepton Montague
  5. Sheptytskyi
  6. Shepway
  7. sheqalim
  8. sheqel
  9. sheqels
  10. Sheqi
  11. Shequala

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