Place Names

Many place names are derived from the physical characteristics of the place, or from the name of the early settlers.

In many cases, place names are also used as surnames.

The following elements are commonly encountered in local place names:

Akroyd Baiting Bank Bar Beck Bent Birdcage Black Blake Boggart Booth Bottom Bracken Bred Brock Brown Bryne Bullace Burton Butt By Byrehmley Carr Catherine Close Clough Crimsel Croft Crum Delph Den

Dene Drain Edge Ellen Ex Eccles Feld Felt Field Finkel Street Fold Garth Gate Gauk Gled Gore Grain Granny Greave Grees Grove Haigh Hamel Haugh Heb Hebble Hebden Hep Hey Hippings

Hirst Hob Hollins Holme Holt Hoo Hope Hove Hull Hurst Ing Jumble Keb Kirk Lad Land Law Ley Light Lillands Lowe Lumb Lydgate Mead Mere Mickle Mir Mixen Moss

Mytholm Nab Names Needless Nell Oliver Op Outlane Over Owler Owram Palace Pex Pightle Pike Popples Rake Riding Royd Salter Scar Scholes Scout Shaw Shelf Slack Slead Smith Snydal

Sough Stall Stannary Staups Strangstry Sty Syke Thick Thorp Thwaite Toft Ton Toothill Town Tuel Tun Tunstall Tur Turbury Water Welsh Whinny Windy Withens Woodhouse Wort Worth Yate Haigh surname

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