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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Grimes Dale
Grimes Dale
Early-attested site in the Parish of Mashamshire
Historical Forms
Grymesdalebek
1314
Fount
Etymology
'Grim's valley' from ON
Grímr
and
dæl
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Aldburgh
Nutwith Cote
Backstone Beck
Swarthorpe
Leighton
Sourmire
Spruce Gill Beck
Sutton
Autherlands
Crawl Side
Eller Beck
Pott Beck
Pott Hall
Twislebrook
Warthermarske
Major Settlement
Burton on Ure
Colsterdale
Ellingstring
Ellington
Fearby
Healey
Ilton
Masham
Swinton
