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.

Gayton Sands

Other OS name in the Parish of Heswall

Historical Forms

  • Gayton Bank or Big Ben 1842 OS

Etymology

, Gayton Bank or Big Ben 1842 OS , a sandbank in the Dee estuary , v. banke . Big Ben may commemorate the Westminster Palace bell .