English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Whipping Post

Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Grimsby

Historical Forms

  • ye whipping poast 1660 GrimsCBix
  • (ye) Common Whipping post 1709,1714 GrimsCBx 1735 GrimsCBxi
  • the whipping post 1711 GrimsCBx

Etymology

Whipping Post (lost), y e whipping poast 1660GrimsCB ix , (ye ) Common Whipping post 1709, 1714GrimsCB x , 1735GrimsCB xi , the whipping post 1711GrimsCB x .