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.

Guinea Gap

Other OS name in the Parish of Wallasey

Etymology

( 100–323913 ) , a valley opening upon the shore of Mersey through a gap in the cliff , v. gappe , cf. King's Gap 300supra . The origin of the first el . is not known . Unless there is some topical allusion , it may be ginnel , ' a narrow passage ' .