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.

Wainsgate

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Waynsegate 1643 PRHept

Etymology

, 1758Watson 452 , Waynsegate 1643 PRHept , ' wagon's road ' , v. wægn , gata .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name