Close Beck, Close Farm, Close Wood
Early-attested site in the Parish of Elwick and Elwick Hall
Historical Forms
- Le Clooe (sic) 1484 RPD, IPM
- The Close 1498,1539 IPM
- Close 1564 1653,1824 Salvin
- farm & lands called the Close in the parish of Elwicke 1717 Hud
- Close House 1728 Salvin
- Close farm 1744 SurteesIII236
- Closse 1498 IPM
- Cloce 1539 ib
- Cloyse 1549 ib
Etymology
'The enclosure', OFr clos, ME close . The reference is to an early enclosure of ground from moorland, “a warm, ancient farmhold” Surtees III 89.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Quarry Cottages, Throston Moor
- High Barns
- North Burn
- St Peter's Church
- Sunderland Lodge
- Swart Hole Plantn
- Thunderbuck Drive
- Whin Plantn
- Winterly Hill Plantn
- Amerston Beck, Amerston Gill, Amerston Hall, Amerston Hill
- Benknowl
- Char Beck
- Church Bridge
- Coal Lane
- Cotefold Close
- Craggy Bank
- Dove Cote
- Elwick Windmill
- The Green
- High Plantns
- Lamb's Ho
- Middleton Ho
- Mill Ho
- Naisberry, Naisberry Cottage
- North lane
- North Urn
- Pawton Hill
- Pudding Poke
- Beacon Hill
- Black Dene Wood
- Black Wood
- W Carr Plantn
- Cheviot Hill
- Cow Pasture Wood
- Crookfoot Cottage, Crookfoot Reservoir
- Elwick Hall
- Gunners Vale
- Hole Ho
- North Lodges
- Stotfold Moor
- Worset Lane
- High Wood
- Northburn Bridge
- Stob Ho Fm
- Hill Ho
- Newton Hanzard Long Drive, Newton Hanzard Beck, Newton Hanzard Cottages, Newton Hanzard Plantns
- Red Gap, Red Gap Moor