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.

Clifton Common

Other OS name in the Parish of Dewsbury

Historical Forms

  • the farr Commons 1698 ib

Etymology

, 1692 Arm , the farr Commons 1698 ib , ME  commun ' commonland ' .