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.

Shoolaboards Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Pontefract

Historical Forms

  • Shooell broodes 1555 TestLds

Etymology

, Shooell broodes 1555 TestLds , ' narrow strips ' , v. scofl ' shovel ' , brǣdu ' breadth ' , a fairly common f.n .