Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Gannocks 1683,1692 GrimsChamb 1801,c.1820 GrimsMap 1842 TA

• the Gannocks 1795 LindDepPlans 1798 Hill

Etymology

Gannocks (lost), Gannocks 1683, 1692GrimsChamb , 1801, c.1820GrimsMap , 1842TA , the Gannocks 1795LindDep Plans , 1798Hill , cf. Gannock land 1691GrimsChamb , Gannooks land 1692ib , Ganacks Closes 1712GrimsCLeet ; this is an obscure name which Mr Field has suggested may allude to an outlying pig-farm, v. PN L 2, 61.The problem, however, is complicated here by the presence in Grimsby of a family called Gannock (s ), cf. Mrs Gannocks 1676GrimsChamb , John Gannok 1691GrimsMiscD and so must be left unresolved. It was the name of a piece of land west of the old Ropery Lane .