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.

Sleights

Early-attested site in the Parish of Whitby

Historical Forms

  • Slechetes c.1223 Whitby
  • Sleghtes c.1223,c.1300 Whitby 1347 Baildon 1429 Test

Etymology

v. sletta and cf. Sleightholme Dale and Sleights 62–3supra .