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.

Cowskit Bank

Other OS name in the Parish of Tetney

Etymology

( local ) , 1779EnclA , 1822Terrier , 1828 Bry , cf , Cowiskitt 1523–24MinAcct , Cowi skytt 1546–47MinAcct , perhaps literally ' cow-dung ' , v. , scite , with the second el . influenced by the cognate ON  skítr . It is the name of the road leading to NewDelights infra .