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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Langbargh East Wapentake
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Lythe
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Hutton Mulgrave
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Briscoe
Briscoe
Early-attested site in the Parish of Lythe
Historical Forms
Bircschoke
1279
YI
Etymology
'Birch wood'
v.
birki
,
skogr
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Sleightholme
Grimsby
Cucket Nook
Goldsborough
Mulgrave
Sandsend
Biggin Houses
Wood Dale House
Major Settlement
Barnby
Borrowby
Ellerby
Hutton Mulgrave
Lythe
Mickleby
Newton Mulgrave
Ugthorpe