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.

Howriggbank

Other OS name in the Parish of Wigton

Historical Forms

  • howrig ib.

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is named from howrig ib. v. haugr , hryggr ( under hrycg ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement