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.

Sharp Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Rothwell

Historical Forms

  • Sharphous 1770 PRRth

Etymology

, 1841 O.S. , Sharphous 1770 PRRth , named from the Sharp family common in the parish from the sixteenth century ( PRRth passim ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name