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.

Height

Other OS name in the Parish of Gisburn

Historical Forms

  • Heght 1592 ib
  • Hight 1600 ib

Etymology

, 1585PRGis , Heght 1592 ib, Hight 1600 ib , v. hēhðu ' lofty place ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site