Mellor
Major Settlement in the Parish of Mellor
Historical Forms
- Melver, Meluer Hy3 For 1283 Misc 1285 For 1293 Pat late13th RylRCh 1332 Middleton 1348 DbAxxxvi 1371 Fine
- Melner 1282 Ipm
- Moluer 1330 Ass
- Mellour 1424 DbAxxiii 1428 WollCh
- Meller 1432 ShefBM
- Mellor 1569 Add
Etymology
'Bare hill', from Brit mailo- and brigā, PrW *M lƀre (ʒ ), v. Jackson 326 and 455; cf. Mellor (PN La 73–4).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- The Banks
- Birchenough
- Blackberry Hall
- Bradshaw Trees, Far Bradshaw, Lower Bradshaw, Upper Bradshaw
- Broad Carr
- Brook Bottom
- Bull Hill
- Cannon Hill
- Capstone
- Chatterton Lane
- Cheetham Hill
- Clough Mill
- Cold Wall
- Cross Gates
- Damsteads Fm
- Drake Car
- Floodgates
- Gibb Lane
- Greenclough Fm
- Greenhill
- Gun Fm
- Hambleton Fold
- Higher Cliff, Lower Cliff
- Hilltop
- Hollywoods
- Horsepool
- The Knowle
- Lane Head
- Lee
- Linnet Clough
- Longhurst Lane
- Longshaw Clough
- Lower Hall
- Mellor Hall
- Mellor Moor
- Newhouse Hill
- Paradise
- Pistol
- Podnor
- Richmond Hill
- Shaw Fm
- Shiloh
- Shirdfields
- Slack
- Snape Hey
- Strawberry Hill
- Tor Top
- Townscliff
- Whetmore Hurst
- Windybottom Fm