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.

Girlington

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bradford

Historical Forms

  • Gyrlington, Girlington 1412 Pat 1615 FF 1658 WillS

Etymology

Girlington, Gyrlington , Girlington 1412 Pat, 1615 FF, 1658 WillS.Possibly, like Girlington YN 300, 'Gyrla's farmstead', from an OE  pers.n. Gyrla , v. -ing 4 , tūn . But some of the early spellings of Grindleton pt. vi infra suggest other possibilities.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name