Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Saltbec 1154×59 Rut

• Saltebec John 1252 BelCartA e.14 Rut Edw1 BelCartB Edw1 e.15

• Saltbec' 1253 Rut

• Saltbek' 1292 BelCartB e.15 Comp 1417,1423 Wyg 1424 Comp 1425,1426,1427

• Saltebek' 1292 BelCartB e.15 Comp 1531

• Saltbeck 1374 BelCartB e.15 Wyg 1424

• Saltbeke 1413 Comp

• Salt beck 1824 O

• Saltbecks 1806 Map

• Bushy Salt becks c.1729 Nichols

• Redmyld Saltbek' 1424 Wyg

• Belvoir Spa 1824 O

Etymology

'The salty stream', v. salt 2 , bekkr . Saltbeck is now the name of a copse on the lower slope of the Wolds escarpment in the extreme north of the parish (hence Bushy ~ c.1729, v. busshi ). Redmyld Saltbek '1424Wyg is recorded in adjoining Redmile parish, but identification of the course of the particular stream is not obvious today, possibly because of alterations caused by modern drainage. It is noteworthy that the defunct Belvoir Spa 1824 O (v. spa ) lay only a half mile south-west of Saltbeck copse. Chalybeate springs hereabouts may have been the source of the stream. Salt domes are known in the Lower Lias formations which underlie the Wolds and ironstone is still worked at Saltby (q. v .) some five miles to the south-east. The stream evidently contained iron salts or other minerals in solution enough to establish its name early in the medieval period.