Flowergate
Early-attested site in the Parish of Whitby
Historical Forms
- Florun 1086 DB
- Flore 1086 DB 1145–8 Whitby 1280 Ass
- Floram 1133 Whitby 1314 NRS
- Floregate 1313 Whitby
Etymology
'(At) the cow stalls' from ON flórum (dat. plur.) or flóri (dat. sg.) of ON flórr . v. gata . Cf. Skiplam 65supra , which is a name of the same significance.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Briggswath
- Flat Howe
- Grosmont
- Iburndale
- Lythe Beck
- Sleights
- Ugglebarnby
- Cock Mill
- Gnipe Howe
- Hawsker Bottoms
- Larpool Hall
- Ling Hill
- Rigg
- Saltwick
- Shawm Rigg
- Spital Bridge
- Stainsacre
- Whitby Laithes
- Dunsley
- Graystone
- Raithwaite
- Swarthoe Cross
- Ruswarp Carr
- Stakesby
- Upgang
- Airy Hill
- Baldby Fields
- Breck
- Church Street
- The Fitts
- Prestby
- Sowerby
- Thingwall