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.

Red Noses

Other OS name in the Parish of Wallasey

Historical Forms

  • the Red Stones 1660 Sheaf

Etymology

( 100–298940 ) , 1831 Bry , the Red Stones 1660 Sheaf , rocks on the old shore of the Irish Sea , cf. Liscardsupra , v. rēad , stān , nōs(e) , cf. Yellow Noses infra , Red Stones 299supra . The colours are those of the mottled Bunter Sandstones and Pebble Beds also exposed at Hilbre and Black Rock , which are bedded in red and yellow layers .