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> Sough is given four entries in the Shorter OED, one of which is (1) A
> boggy or swampy place;
In the Preston of my youth (50's) a Sough ('suff') was effectively a boggy
swampy area, especially around tributary streams (not the main River
Ribble), indeed these tributaries had been all but swallowed up by
urbanisation & all that was apparent were the soughs in odd bits of land.
Ian
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