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.

Banks Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Burtholme

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is so named in 1799 ib . Banks is situated on the Roman Wall and the name , which is a remarkably early example of the word bank as a place - name , must be derived from Roman work in the neighbourhood .