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.

Whinholme

Early-attested site in the Parish of Cowton

Historical Forms

Qwhinholm 1198 Fount

Wyneholme 1547 FF

Etymology

'Meadow overgrown with gorse' v. whin , holmr .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement