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Focuses on the stream-name `Flooker's Brook,' included in John McNeal Dodgeson's survey of the place-names of Cheshire, England. Early forms of the stream-name; Area covered by the name; Use at Glasson[Dock] on the Lune estuary as late as the 1960s; Etymology; Modern pronunciation and spellings.

Presents an effort to understand the meaning of the Old English personal name `Odda.' Hypocoristic form; Name of which Odds forms the first element; Case for understanding Odda as a monothematic name; Relevance of presumed antiquity of place-name.