Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• The Score 1617 Chol 1831 Bry

Etymology

, 1842 OS , The Score 1617Chol et freq to 1831 Bry , cf. the Scorefield 1729Chol , Score Hatch 1743, Score Hatches 1768ib , 1844TA , Score Meadow 1844TA , the name of a tract of pasture , now largely taken up by the Manchester Ship Canal , on the Mersey shore of Frodsham Marshes , cf. ScoreBank infra . The origin is ON  skor ' a cut, a ditch ' , probably a drainage ditch , with feld , mǣd and hæc(c) ' a hatch, a sluice ' .