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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.

Bents Knowle

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Bent Knowl 1843 O.S.

Etymology

, Bent Knowl 1843 O.S. , cf. Bents 1835Sav , v. beonet , cnoll ' hillock ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name