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Clabber Napper’s Hole

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Near Gravesend; said to be named after a freebooter; but more likely the Celtic Caerber lʹarber (water-town lower camp).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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