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Survey of English Place-Names

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Stoodley Pike

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Studley Pike 1771 M

Etymology

, 1817 M , Studley Pike 1771 M , v. prec. , pīc ' pointed hill ' , now surmounted by a monument originally built in 1814 – 15 to commemorate the surrender of Paris(HAS 18, 73) and to which the name is sometimes wrongly thought to refer .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name