Winter Shields
Early-attested site in the Parish of Askerton
Historical Forms
- Winterscale(s) 1259 Laner
- Wyntershell 1552 CW(OS)xiii
- Wintersheildes 1589 ExchKR
- Winter sheeles 1633 Naworth
- Wintershields 1722 PR(Laner)
Etymology
'Winter shielings.' The name originally contained ON skáli. Before the middle of the 16th century this had been replaced by the equivalent Northern English schele, which survives in the modern name.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Askerton Castle
- Askerton Park
- Allergarth
- Barron's Pike
- The Beacon
- Birch Bush and Birk Bush
- Birky Clugh
- Bogside
- Bottle Crag
- Brown Hill
- Bull Cleugh
- Bush
- Bushley Bank
- The Butt
- Cammock Rigg
- Cocklet Rigg
- Collin Bank
- Doe Hill
- Elliotstown
- Fawcettlees
- Flowery Hirst
- Foulbog Rigg and Sike
- Gillalees
- High and Low Grains
- Haining Bank
- Herd Hill
- Howdale
- Jobscleugh
- Jock's Hill
- Knorren Lodge
- Lonning Head
- Lynes
- Meughsgate
- Mount Hulie
- Oakstock
- High and Low Park
- Parkgate
- Red Hall
- Rigg Head
- Room's Cragg
- Shaw Plantation
- Shopford
- Side Fell
- Smithsteads
- Stack Cleugh
- Woodhead