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.

Backstone Edge

Other OS name in the Parish of Dufton

Etymology

, 1859OS , ' scarp where bake-stones were got ' , v. bæc-stān , ecg , cf. Bakestones (i, 183supra ) .