Beard Hall
Early-attested site in the Parish of New Mills
Historical Forms
- Berd(e) 1236 Cl Hy3,1285 For 1292 Ipm 1306 Ass 1575 DuLaMB
- Brede 1251 DbAv
- (del) Halle de Berde 1343 Cor
- Beard Hall Eliz ChancP
Etymology
Beard Hall, Berd (e )1236 Cl, Hy 3, 1285For , 1292 Ipm, 1306 Asset freq to 1575DuLaMB , Brede 1251 DbA v, (del ) Halle de Berde 1343Cor , Beard Hall Eliz ChancP. This may be, as Ekwall (Studies 134) proposes, OE brerd 'brim, margin, hill-side', with loss of -r -; but OE beard 'beard', perhaps in the sense 'hillside, edge', might be thought of.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Aspenshaw Hall
- Beardhough
- Cown Edge Rocks
- Knightwake
- Ladyshaw Bottom
- Ollersett
- Raven Slack
- Rowarth
- Shedyard
- Strines
- Thornset
- Whitle
Other OS name
- Anderton Ho
- Bakehurst
- Ballbeard
- Bank Head
- Bate Mill
- Beard Mill
- Beardwood Fm
- Blake Hall
- Briergrove
- Broadhurst
- Brownhill
- Butcher's Piece Fm
- Butterbank Plantation
- Charson Green
- Cloughhead
- Coalpit Hill
- Cobsters
- Cold Harbour
- Crowther
- Diglands
- Downs Bank
- Eaves Knoll
- Far Slack
- Feeding Hey
- Gibb Hey
- Golden Spring
- Gowhole
- Hague Fold
- Hidebank
- Highfield
- High Hill
- High Lee
- Highwalls
- Hollinhurst Head
- Hollins
- Howcroft Fm
- Hutfall Plantation
- Jordanwall Nook
- Ladygate Fm
- Low Leighton
- Moor Lo
- Napkin Piece
- Nob Hall
- Over Lee
- Pole Lane
- Popples
- Redishaw
- Ringstones
- Robin Hood's Picking Rods
- Tanpits Fm
- Thecks
- Thornset Fields
- Watford Villa
- Wethercotes
- Whitle Bank
- Will Hey
- Windy Knowl