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Scarth of Scaiths

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen

Historical Forms

  • (the) Skarth of skait(e)s 1684,1776 BdyR(M.5,17)

Etymology

, (the ) Skarth of skait (e )s 1684, 1776BdyR (M. 5, 17) , v. skarð ' gap, pass ' , here a depression in the ridge between Hugh Seat and Little Fell ; Scaiths may well be from ON  skeið in the sense ' boundary ' , as the place marks the YN boundary at grid 90 – 807980 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site