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.

The Skaithe

Other OS name in the Parish of Slaidburn

Etymology

, the name of a wide piece of road north of the village , probably from ON  skeið ' track, race-track ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name