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.

Waterfall

Other OS name in the Parish of Bamford

Historical Forms

Waterfoss 1786 ib

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Waterfoss 1786 ib , v. wæter , fors .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Mytham Bridge

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Bamford