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.

High Stand

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wetheral

Historical Forms

  • (del) heghstand 1272 For

Etymology

This carries this word back some 120 years. There is a similar use of 'high' in Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight vv. 1169–70, with its reference to þe hyʒeþe loʒe trysteres .