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.

Flight Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Etymology

, 1843 O.S. , probably l. ME  flight ' turf ' , dial . flight , flaught , flaight probably in the sense ' moorlandturf cut up for fuel ' ; it recurs in Flight Hill ii, 247 , Flaight Hill 204 , 270 , Flaight Clough and Flaught Hill 192 , Fleight ( Gisburn ) pt . vi infra .

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Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement