Glossop

Glossop

Glossop , town (1991 pop. 29,923), Derbyshire, central England. It is a residential suburb of Manchester. A chief cotton-manufacturing city of Derbyshire, Glossop also has an engineering industry. Other products are woolens, canned goods, and paper. The town is adjacent to Peak District National Park.

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Glossop, England/UK Glosop, Glotsop ‘Glott's Valley’ from an Old English personal name and hop ‘enclosure in a valley’.

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Glossop Derbys. Glosop 1086 (DB), Glotsop 1219. ‘Valley of a man called *Glott’. OE pers. name + hop.

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