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.

Dunkirk, Dunkirk Lane & Dunkirk Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale

Historical Forms

  • Dunkirk, Dunkirk Colliery 1831 ib
  • Dunkirk Homesites 1845 TA

Etymology

, Dunkirk , Dunkirk Colliery 1831 ib, Dunkirk Homesites 1845TA , cf. Dunkirk 331infra , v. 329infra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site