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.

Whitestones

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hawnby

Historical Forms

Wytstayndale 1290 Dugdiv.285

Etymology

v. hwit , steinn , dalr and cf. Norw Hwitstein (Rygh, NG ii. 6).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement