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.

Scarth Wood, Lees

Early-attested site in the Parish of Whorlton

Historical Forms

Scarth 1189–99 YCh

Scarthwood 1616 NR

Etymology

v. skarð . The scarth here is the long narrow pass running through the Cleveland Hills.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement