Rookby
Early-attested site in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen
Historical Forms
- Rochebi(a) 1178,1179 Pipe
- Rokeby 1201 Cur 1210 Abbr 1279 Ass5 1292 1315 Ipm Hy6 Rent
- Rukeby 1323 MinAcct 1369 Cliff 1389 Pat
- Rukeby als. Rowckebye 1615 FF
- Rukkeby 1364 FF
- Roukeby 1369 Cliff
- Rook(e)by, Rook(e)bie 1597 FF 1634 NB 1777 M
- Reukby 1732 PR(Wp)
Etymology
'Rook-haunted farmstead' (v. hrōc , ON hrókr , bȳ ), or 'Hrōca's farmstead' from an OE pers.n. Hrōca (cf. Rokeby YN 301). On the later forms cf. Phonol. §15.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Greenside
- Hartley Birkett
- Hartley Castle
- Hartley Fell, Fold, & Town Beck
- Hellgill Howe
- Jack Standards
- Kirkbank Lane
- Ladthwaite
- Long Rigg Scar
- Low Mill
- Needless Sike
- Park Hill
- Ponder Hill
- Reigill
- Rollinson Gill & Haggs
- Sellerns Well
- Slackgap Lane
- Whingill
- Amersber Wood
- Arras Close
- Askew Hill
- Bowber Hill
- Fell Intake
- Fog Close
- Gowder Bank
- Hag Sike
- High Edge
- Hog Hill
- Howgill Foot
- Hugh Seat Nab
- Hunter Holes
- Megson Wood
- Moorland Shaw
- Mossmires Hill
- Nab Pits
- Popping Bridge
- Rea Gill
- Redgate, Redgate Lane
- Robridding
- Roger Gill
- Rowantree Crags & Hill
- Sandwath Bridge & Sike
- Seat Gutter
- Slape Wath
- Starrow
- Sturdy
- Tackan Tan
- Tutt Hill
- Eskew Lane
- Galebars
- Green Riggs
- Greystone Rigg
- Habers
- Halfpenny Ho
- Heck Gill
- How Gill
- Keldy Banks
- Long Gill
- Moorlands
- New Bridge
- Redstone Hill
- Sandwath, Sandwath Sike
- Spamire
- Stenkrith, Stenkrith Bridge
- Angerholme
- Ay Gill
- The Band, High & Low Band
- Bells
- Bents, Bent Side
- Birkett Bottom, Knott, & Tarn
- Birk Rigg
- Black Blote Hill
- Black Fell Moss
- Black Hill
- Black Paddock
- Black Pot
- Boggle Green
- Cowstead Gill
- Cumpston Hill
- Currick
- Deep Gill
- Dikes Ho
- Dorving Gill
- Eden Sike
- Eller Howe
- Elmgill
- Fair Hill
- Fall Gill
- Fells End
- Fleets Beck & Bridge
- Flue Scarth Nick
- Foss Gill
- Foul Gutter
- The Friths
- Giants Graves
- Hanging Stone
- Hazel Gill
- Headley's Gill
- Hell Gill
- Hell Gill Beck
- High Bank
- High Brae
- High Seat
- Hollin Close Wood
- The Holmes
- Howe Top
- Ing Ends, Gill, Heads, & Hill
- Intake, Intake Gill
- Jingling Hole
- Joseph's Gill
- Keld Sike
- Knowes
- Lindrigg Scars
- Little Ing
- Little Wold
- Lock Hill
- Long Gill, Long Gill Head
- Lordburn Rigg
- Loven Scar
- Mallerstang Common, Edge, & End
- Middleark Scar
- Miregill
- The Mires
- Moor Riggs
- Moss Gill
- Outhgill
- Owl Gill
- Parry Gill
- Sleddale Mouth
- Sloe Brae
- Smithy Gill
- Sour Sike
- Stank Hill
- Stirk Ho
- Stone Close
- Stony Band
- Stony Gill
- Stubbing Rigg
- Sunny Brow
- Swarth Fell
- Swarth Fell Pike
- Swineset
- Tenement Gill
- The Thrang, Thrang Beck & Force
- Turner Hay Hill
- Waiches
- Well Gill
- White Bank
- White Birks Hill
- White Hill
- White Mea Edge
- Horn Bank
- Jingling Cove
- Star Bank
- Thringill
- Ward Odds
- Rosber Hill
- Sandriggs
- Sikeside
- Soulby Bridge & Grange
- South Ho
- Stagmire Moss
- Stockber
- Strutforth Hill
- Tewthwaite Hill
- Wain Wath
- Waltinber
- Washber Hill
- Wyber Hill
- Black Hill
- Bowber Hill
- Castle Hill
- Choup Gill
- Crawl Rigg
- Giants' Grave
- Grammery Bank
- Hazel Gill
- Highmore Hill
- Hound Toft
- Intake Gill
- Leases
- Limekiln Hill
- Lingy Intake
- Mill Banks
- Baxton Gill Head
- Beckwadem Bridge
- Birkett Beck & Hill
- Castle Hill
- Coalgill Sike
- Cocken Hill
- Coffin Bridge
- Coldbergh Side
- Cote Garth
- Dukerdale
- Eden Place
- Faraday Gill & Ho
- Fell Ho
- Greyrigg
- Lord's Stone
- Mill Beck
- High & Low Outwood
- Pod Gill
- Bog Sike
- Bracken Gill & Rigg
- Broxty
- Burntling Hole
- Cocklake Rigg
- Coldkeld, Coldkeld Spring
- Cowan, Cowan Crags & Edge
- Cross Howe
- Drive Hole
- Dry Gill
- Duckintree
- Duckintree Bridge
- Flowery Mea
- Hunting Seat
- Hush Gutter
- Intake Force
- Kaber Gross & Rigg
- Kettlepot Bog & Ghyll
- Lady Sike
- Lingy Rigg
- Lowcock Hill
- Springs Edge & Gutter
- Stowgill
- Sty Bank
- Taylor Rigg
- Well Riggs
- Wrenside
- Wygill
- Yard Loup
- Bengy Hill
- Black Pot
- Bloody Bones Lane
- Bollamgate
- Brockram Quarry
- Busk
- Collier Dub
- Edenbridge Ho
- Enterber
- Stobars Hall
- Tarn Lane
- Tarn Mire, Tarnmire Hole
- Thorny Pot Hole
- Trainriggs
- Wether Hill
- Whitrigg
- Whorn Gill
- Wiseber Hill
- Aisgill
- Archy Styrigg
- Bleakham Fold
- Bracken Holme
- Brunt
- Burnt Crag
- Capple Mere
- Careless Bank
- Carr Beck & Ho
- Castle Bridge
- Cata Gill
- Coal Gates
- Coalwell Scars
- Cocklake
- Cooper Hill
- Corry Hole End
- Cote Gill
- The Coves
- Cranberry
- Fothergill Sike
- Foulmart Hill
- Gale Sike
- Gill Grains
- Goodwife Stones
- Grains of Gill
- Great Bell
- Great Cove
- Gregory Band
- Gregory Chapel
- Grey Stone
- Grey Stones
- Hagg Well
- Hall Hill
- The Halls
- Hanging Lund
- Harry Mea
- Kitchen Gill
- Lady's Pillar
- Parrock Gill
- Pasture Gill
- Peat Moor
- Posy Clint
- Raven's Nest
- Red Gill
- Red Scar
- The Riggs
- Rigg Sike
- Rowantree Cove
- St Mary's Church
- Sandpot
- Sandy Gutter
- Scarth of Scaiths
- Scar Wood
- Scriddles
- Scotch Well
- Shoregill
- Slade Edge
- Slade Stones
- Slipe Hole
- Trough Riggs
- White Brow
- White Kirk
- Whithow Sike
- Windy Hills
- Yoadcomb Hole
- Birkett Hill
- Blea Pots Lumb
- Blind Gill Holes
- Bollam Bridge
- Broad Ing Sike
- Butterbers
- Crag Dub
- Gelderslack Lane
- Great Edge
- Hanging Brow
- High Ho
- Hunger Hills
- Lamps Moss
- Linecroft
- Lockthwaite
- Middleber Sike
- Mire Close Bridge
- Nateby Cow Close
- Nategill
- Odds
- Ore Hill
- Rakehead
- Reins Wood
- Ridding Ho
- Rigg Beck
- Sear Rigg
- Sleighgate Hill
- Tailbridge, Tailbridge Neck
- Watergap Lane
- White Brackens Ho
- Beckfoot Lane
- Blind Bridge
- Bonnygate
- Codgy Bank
- Crossbers Hill
- Gallansey
- Goosemire Sike
- Grassgill
- Haber Hill & Heads
- Holesmire
- How Gill
- Limekiln Lane
- Longthorn Hill
- Low Hall
- Mask Rd
- Mill Lane
- Miltinber Plant
- Newlands Rd
- Row End
- Burnt Bottom
- Riddlesay
- Moor Pot
- Bleatapow Hill
- Hilton Crag
- Hunger Rigg
- Ketmire Lane
- Lady Ing
- Linehams
- Manor Ho
- Middle Gill
- Millstone Haggs & Rigg
- Murrocks
- Nine Standards
- Nine Standards Rigg
- Peatpot Hill
- Pinfold
- Rookby Scarth
- Roughton Gill
- Scurreth Edge
- Skelcies
- Oxen Brow
- Rasett Hill
- The Riggs
- Smardale Demesne, Fell & Hall
- Stripes
- Waitby Common, Intake, & Scar
- Wether Hill
- Whitber
- Wysack Well
- Bullgill
- Christy Gill, Christopher Brow
- Croop Ho
- Easegill Head
- Furrow Green
- Greengate
- Greenlaw Rigg
- Hobby
- Keld Brow
- Little Fell
- Low Ho
- Moor End
- Puddinghowe Hill
- Pump Hill
- Turn Wheel
- Wharton Dikes, Fell, Hall, & Park
- Whinny Hill
- Windy Hill
- Wiseber
- Back Gutter
- Backstone Beck & Castle
- Bastifell
- Beckfoot
- Bields Fold & Gill
- Black Edge
- Black Gutter
- Bleaberry Beck
- Brownber, Brownber Tarn
- Coal Gill
- Collin Hill
- Cow Close
- Daleholme Lane
- Deep Gill
- Dolphin Seat
- Fox Crag
- Gillcumber Head
- Great Troughs
- Greenfell Crag
- Gruntley Beck
- Habers Hill
- Harthorn Crag
- Hawsteads
- Swinesell
- Tarn Haggs
- Town Head
- Williamson Gill
- Winton Fell, Force, Hall, & Mill