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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North Riding of Yorkshire
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Ryedale Wapentake
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Kirkby Moorside
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Farndale
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Middle Head
Middle Head
Early-attested site in the Parish of Kirkby Moorside
Historical Forms
Middelhoved
13
Riev
Etymology
v.
middel
,
hǫfuð
.
Places in the same Parish
Major Settlement
Fadmoor
Farndale
Gillamoor
Kirkby Moorside
Early-attested site
Loskay House
Sleightholme Dale
Sleights House
Harland
Swinacle
Bowforth
Hagg Farm
Keldholme
Ravenswyke