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.

Whirnestone

Field in the Parish of Egremont

Historical Forms

  • Whirnestone 1578 Cocker

Etymology

Whirnestone(probablyOE  cweorn-stān,'millstone')