English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Sitch Cottages

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bebington

Etymology

Sitch Cottages (109–319828), named from a watercourse at the boundary of Poulton cum Spital cf. 253supra , le Wyte seche 13AddCh , album sychum 1300–27ib , le Wytesiche 1307–27JRC , album citum 1318ib , le Witesiche , album sichum 1323AddCh , 'the white stream', v. hwīt , sīc .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name