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.

Standal's Farm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Stone

Historical Forms

  • Standhills c.1825 O

Etymology

Standhill (O) goes back to OE  stangedelf , 'stony trench or quarry' (v. (ge)delf), and that is what we may have here, perhaps in the plural. There is a stone quarry a mile to the north.

Places in the same Parish