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.

Waitewra

Field in the Parish of Whitbeck

Historical Forms

Waitewra 1190–1200 Cockersand

Etymology

Waitewra 1190–1200 Cockersand(v. hveiti,(v)rá).

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Whitbeck