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Survey of English Place-Names

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Mount Pellon

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Mount Pellar 1719 HAS

Etymology

, 1729 Watson 641 , Mount Pellar 1719 HAS 26, 40 , perhaps an adaptation of e.ModE  pelamountayne , an early herbalist 's name for ' wild thyme ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name