English Place-name Society

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.

Rudmoor

Early-attested site in the Parish of Pickering

Historical Forms

  • Rotemur 1334 ForP
  • Rotymyr 1335 ForP

Etymology

From ON  rotinn 'rotten, putrid,' and myrr, later replaced by mor . ON  mýrr would normally become [mɔr] in the dialect.