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.
Survey of English place-names
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Upton
Upton
Early-attested site in the Parish of Loftus
Historical Forms
Upton
1442
Test
Etymology
'High farm'
v.
upp
,
tun
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Handale, Grindale
Roskelthorpe
Wapley House
Major Settlement
Loftus