Scale Foot
Early-attested site in the Parish of Guisborough
Historical Forms
- Schalingthawythe 1301 LS
- Skalethwayte 1539 Dugdv.510
- Scalethwayte al. Scaylthat 1573 FF
Etymology
'Enclosure with a small shed or shieling,' cf. Scaling 139supra , and v. þveit . The final element þveit has undergone a dialectal sound-change of th to f (cf. Garfit 69supra ) and popular etymology has connected the word with foot .