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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.

Scar Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen

Etymology

, 1859OS , cf. Scarbrae 1842TA , v. sker ' scar, outcrop of rock ' , brae being from ON  brá ' brow of a hill ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site