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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.

Spa Ho(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Beetham

Etymology

( lost ) , formerly an inn 1662 ( E . Hodgson, Glimpses of Witherslack ( Kendal 1937 ) , 7 ) , named from the Weatherslack Spaw mentioned by Thomas Shaw , History of the Principle Mineral Waters ( Sheffield 1740 ) 55 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site