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.

Thunder Stone

Other OS name in the Parish of Shap

Etymology

, there are 4 examples of this in the parish , chiefly denoting large boulders which form boundary stones , cf. Thunderstone (ii, 48supra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement