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.

Highmoor

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wigton

Historical Forms

Heymore in Wigton' 1344 GDR

Heighmore 1366 Fine

the hyghmore 1393 Ass

Heymore 1533–8 ECP

Etymology

'High moor.'

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Spital

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Wigton