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.
Survey of English place-names
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Whitby Strand Wapentake
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Harwood Dale
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Dry Heads
Dry Heads
Early-attested site in the Parish of Hackness
Historical Forms
Drye Hede
1540
Whitby
Etymology
Self-explanatory.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Whisperdales
Everley
Northfield Fm
Thieves Dikes
Langdale Side
Flock Leys
Hard Dale
Hilla Thwaite
Holl Gate
Langdale End
Low Dales, High Dales
Bloody Beck
Cop Keld Brook
Gatela Road
Keasbeck
Kirkless
Murk Head
Thirley Cotes
Breaday Heights
Major Settlement
Broxa
Hackness
Harwood Dale
Silpho
Suffield