Baslow Bar
Early-attested site in the Parish of Baslow and Bubnell
Historical Forms
- Basselowe Barre Ed2 DbAxxii
Etymology
Baslow Bar (6″), Basselowe Barre Ed 2 DbA xxii. Bar is PrW *barr 'top, crest', here referring to the steep ridge overlooking Baslow. Cf. Barr (PN St 10) and Barrock (PN Cu 201). Pegge 3–4 notes its use in Db dial. meaning 'horseway up a steep hill'. He states: “In the Peak of Derbyshire all those steep and precipitous roads which run down from the cliffs to the valleys, where the villages are generally plac'd, they call Bars, whence Bakewell Bar, Beely Bar, Baslow Bar, Rowsley Bar, etc.”
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Baslow Hall
- Bridge End
- Bubnell Hall
- Clod Hall
- Cock Hill
- Dobb Edge
- Eaton Hill
- Gardom's Coppice and Gardom's Edge
- Gorsebank Fm
- Heathy Lea
- Lady Wall Well
- Mellor Lane
- Moorside
- Nelson's Monument
- Nether End
- Over End
- Parkgate
- Park Lodge
- Pinfold
- Robin Hood
- Shaw Top
- Stoke Flat and Swine Sty
- Three Men
- Townend Wood
- White Edge
- Windley Well