Stirtloe
Early-attested site in the Parish of Buckden
Historical Forms
- Stirt 1209 For
- Stert 1231,1284 FF
- Sterth 1257 BM
- Stertelawe 1286 Ass
- Stirtloe 1574 BM
Etymology
This must be a compound of steort used of a 'tongue or tail of land' and hlaw , 'hill.' Cf. Sturteslowe in Ravensden (1269).It is curious that there are no signs of what would have been the normal development to Start and Startlow . Mr R. C. Gardner informs us that there is nothing but a slight ridge here, rising up from the Ouse, nothing that we should really call a hill.