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.

Whitby Laithes

Early-attested site in the Parish of Whitby

Historical Forms

  • Whitebi-lathes 1351 Whitby

Etymology

v. hlaða 'a barn' and Whitby 126 infra .