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Attested as Groote Wal in 1680. Compound of groot (“great, big”) and wal (“embankment wall, levee”).
Grotewal n
- A hamlet in Schagen, North Holland, Netherlands
- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “grotewal”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN