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.

Bag Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Chapel en le Frith

Historical Forms

  • Baghowses 1640 DuLaSC
  • Baghouses 1714 DuLa

Etymology

, Baghowses 1640DuLaSC , Baghouses 1714DuLa , probably referring to tumbledown cottages such as beggars might inhabit , v. bagge ( n ) , hūs , cf. Bag Lane infra 447 .