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Survey of English Place-Names

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Staithwaite Borrow

Other OS name in the Parish of Heversham

Historical Forms

  • Stern(e)-, Starnetwhait, Starnethwaite 1560,1574 Kendii,101–3 1569 PR

Etymology

, cf. Sternthwaite meadowe 1716Ct 8 , Starnthwaite Hill 1815EnclA , named from the local family of Stern (e )-,Starnetwhait , Starnethwaite (1560, 1574 Kend ii, 101–3, 1569 PR 5et freq ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site