Staple Oak
Early-attested site in the Parish of Slaidburn
Historical Forms
- Stapelok 1343 MinAcct
- Stapelak(e) 1367,l.14 Kirkst
- Stapilloke 1423 MinAcct
- Stableoke 1578 WillY
- Lower Stablock 1590 ib
Etymology
Staple Oak, 1771 M, Stapelok 1343MinAcct , Stapelak (e )1367, l. 14 Kirkst, Stapilloke 1423MinAcct , Stableoke 1578 WillY, Lower Stablock 1590 ib, 'Oak-tree near the pillar or post', v. stapol , āc , cf. Stapleton Terne La 186 (Stapilthorne ) and OE to stapola ðorne (BCS 596). The precise meaning is unknown, but BCS 629 speaks of a 'thorn-tree where the post stands' (to þam þorne þær se stapul stent ).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Hammerton Hall
- Battersby Fm
- Phynis
- Burn Fell, Burn Ho & Burn Slack
- Heaning
- Wyndyates
- Burholme
- Trough of Bowland
- Rushton Hill
- Brunghill Moor
- Foulscales
- Knowlmere Manor, Knoll Wood
- Browsholme Hall
- Radholme Laund
- Beatrix
- Brennand Fell, Brennand Ho, Brennand River & Brennand Tarn
- Croasdale
- Dunsop Bridge & Dunsop River
- Graydale
- Hareden
- Swinglehurst
- Whitendale, Whitendale River
Other OS name
- Barn Gill
- Birch Hill
- Black Ho
- Bottom Beck
- Bowland Knotts
- Brabbin Wood
- Bridge Ho
- Broad Head
- Brock Clough Gill
- Brock Thorn
- Brown Hill Beck
- Cat Knot
- Catlow Fell & Catlow Hill
- Chapel Ho
- Cloven Stones
- Clunter Clough
- Coat Rakes Bridge
- Cocklet Hill
- Cocklick End & Cocklick Ho
- Dugdale Syke
- Fair Hill
- Gaughey Hill
- Grange Hall
- How Hill
- Kearsden Holes
- Rain Gill
- Rig Gill
- Sadler Hill & Sadler Nick
- White Greet
- White Hill
- Wood Ho
- Anna Land Brook & Anna Land End
- Baite Laithe
- Bell Sykes
- Bond Hill
- Brennand Hill
- Bridge End
- Broken Bank Head
- Burn End
- Caulfers
- Church Stile
- Croasdale Beck & Croasdale Ho
- Cross Gates
- Dean Slack
- Dunsop, Dunsop Brook & Dunsop Fell
- Eller Beck (Bridge)
- Fauber Laithe
- Fell Side
- Field Head
- Gold Hill
- Harkers
- Harrisons
- High Field
- Holme Head
- Hyde Field
- Knott Gate & Knott Hill
- Langcliff Cross
- Laythams
- Merrybent Hill
- Midgram Wood
- Moor Syke
- Myttons
- Pages
- Pain Hill
- Parrock Head
- Pikefield
- Ramsclough
- Sagar Hill
- Shay Ho & Shay Wood
- Simfield
- The Skaithe
- Slack Barn
- Swallow Scars
- Ashnott
- Birkett, Birkett Fell
- Blue Butts
- Blue Gates
- Boarsden
- Bonstone Brook
- Bracken Hill
- Brown Hill & Brown Hills
- Bull Lane
- Chapel Croft
- Crag Beck, Crag Hill, Crag Ho & Crag Stones
- Crawshaw
- Crimpton Brook
- Dunnow
- Hallgate Hill
- Hill Ho
- Hund Hill
- Long Stripes
- Matril Laithe
- Moor End
- Slim Row
- Batesons
- Calf Ho
- Cat Knot
- Cow Ark
- Crane Wood Ho
- Crimpton
- Crow Wood
- Doe Barn
- Doeford Bridge
- Dribble Wood
- Elm Clough
- Fielding Clough
- Flatts
- Hagg Clough
- Hall Hill
- Thorneyholme
- Bracken Hill
- Brown Syke
- Bull Stones
- Calder Moor
- Calf Clough
- Call Wood
- Cat Holes
- Chapel Ho
- Clough
- Cold Well
- Collyholme
- Copped Hill
- Copter Syke
- Costy Clough
- Croasdale Ho
- Dane Hill
- Dryster Clough
- Eak Hill
- Fell End
- Flat Clough
- Holme Head
- Kenibus
- Lamb Hill Fell & Lamb Hill Ho
- Lee End
- Lingy Pits
- Long Crag
- Losterdale Brook
- Low Fell
- Mellor Knoll
- Mere Clough
- Middle Knoll
- Miry Ellis
- Mouse Hill
- New Close
- New Hey
- Old Hey
- Old Ho
- Ox Rigg
- Pether Stake
- Rams Clough
- Ratten Clough
- Raven Scar
- Red Syke
- Reeves Edge
- Root Hill
- Rynsyke Holes
- Saddle Hill
- Scout Rock
- Sheephouse
- Smithy Hill
- Sniddle Holes
- Snout Berry Holes
- Stag Holes
- Stone Haw
- Stransdale Brook
- Swine Clough
- Sykes
- Sykes Fell
- Tooth Hill
- Totridge Fell
- Turner Hill
- Walkers
- Weasel Clough
- Whin Fell
- White Bank
- White Crag
- White Hill
- White Wall
- Wicken Clough
- Cockshutts Part
- Coppy Laithe
- Cowgill Syke
- Croft Ho
- Cross of Greet
- Crutchenber Fell
- Easington Brook & Easington Fell
- Fell Side
- Gauntle Fold
- Green Fold
- Green Knots
- Green Pike
- Grey Crag
- Guard Ho
- Guys
- Halstead
- Halstead Fell & Halstead Wood
- Hammerton Mere
- Hard Hill
- Hasgill
- Heak Clough
- Hell Hole
- Hole Ho
- Hollins
- Honeymouth Bridge
- Huff Clough
- King Syke
- Knot Clough
- Laverick Hill
- Linsay Croft
- Marl Barn
- Miry Lane
- New Ho
- Old Ing
- Old Moss
- Oxengill
- Park Beck & Park Wood
- Pike Side
- Quarry Ho
- Ravens Castle or Crowd Stones
- Rye Clough
- Shays
- Sheep Hill
- Skelshaw (Brook)
- Slack
- Smelfthwaites
- Sour Clough
- Standridge
- Stephen Moor
- Stephen Park
- Stocks in Bowland
- Stony Bank
- Swinshaw
- Swire Clough
- Well Ho
- Clough
- Lanshaw Brook
- Mellows
- Stone Cross
- Threap Hill
- Tinklers
- Tinsley Bridge
- Townfield Plant
- Town Head
- Wain Hill
- Whiteholme
- Wisket Hill
- Witton Hills
- Woodhouse Gate
- Duckpit Hill
- Farrowfield
- Forber Barn
- Gamble Hole
- Gibbs
- Gray Stones
- Grey Gill
- Hey
- Hodder Bank
- Ing Barn
- Marl Hill
- Meanley
- Mossthwaite
- New Biggin
- Newton Bridge, Newton Fell & Newton Hall
- Oxenhurst
- Pot Wood
- Ridding Barn
- Riddle Clough
- Robin Clough
- Rough Sike
- Scar Ho
- Slush Wood
- Standridge Hill
- Stone Fold
- Storth
- Stubbings Wood
- Lower Thorneyholme
- Underhand
- Underwood
- Walloper Well
- Birch Hill
- Hare Clough
- Hodgson Moor
- Ing Wood
- Kitcham Wood
- Laund Wood
- Lees
- Lilyholme Barn
- Long Land Wood
- Marls Clough
- Mill Brook
- Ox Barn
- Park Gate
- Raven Scar
- Seedalls, Seed Hill
- Stakes
- Whitewell
- Withins Clough
- Back of Hill Barn
- Banks
- Baxton Fell
- Beatrix Fell
- Birch Bank
- Birch Clough
- Bishop Houses
- Black Brook
- Bleadale, Bleadale Nab, Bleadale Ridge & Bleadale Water
- Bleashaw Clough
- Bloe Greet
- Blue Scar
- Bog Holes
- Brackenholes Clough
- Brade Rakes Clough
- Brim Clough
- Broad Head
- Brown Berry Plain
- Brown Nab
- Brunton Laithe
- Dry Clough
- Dure Clough
- Esp Clough & Esp Crag
- Fiendsdale
- Fog Hill
- Folds Clough
- Fox Clough
- Fox Holes
- Gawthrick Holes
- Good Greave
- Green Clough
- Greystone
- Grinding Stones Rocks
- Hard Hill Top
- Hare Clough
- Hareden Brook & Hareden Fell
- Hind Clough & Hind Slack
- Holdron Moss & Holdron Castle
- Holme Ho
- Knot
- Langden Brook, Langden Fell & Langden Head
- Penny Brook
- Stake Fell & Stake End
- White Syke
- Whitmore
- Winfield Fell(lost)
- Witcher Wells
- Wolfhole Crag
- Wood End