Upperthong
Major Settlement in the Parish of Almondbury
Historical Forms
- Thwnge 1274 WCR
- Thwong(e) 1274,1277,1313 WCR 1366 YDi
- Uverthwong(e) 1297 WCR
- Ouerthwong(e), Overthwong(e) 1315 1408,1572 WCR 1577 WillY 1618 FF
- Overthwonges 1314 WCR
- Thoung(e) 1275,1307,1308 WCR
- Hoverthoung(e) 1275 ib
- Overthownge 1590 WillY
- Overtong 1544 WillY
- Thonge 1575 FF
- Overthonge 1587 WillY
Etymology
v. Netherthong 286supra ; for the affix, v. uferra 'upper'.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Castle Hill
- Fenay
- Gledhill Hill
- Longley
- Newsome
- Lower Thorpe
- Booth Ho
- Bradshaw
- Hogley
- Cowlersley
- Binn
- Lingards Wood
- Pule Hill
- Standedge
- Wessenden
- Helme
- Thick Hollins
- Crodingley
- Armitage Bridge
- Netherton
- Burnlee
- Holmfirth
- Reap Hill
- Wheels Brook
- Longley
- Woodsome Hall
- Yateholme
- Brock Holes
- Mytholm Bridge
Other OS name
- Almondbury Bank
- Almondbury Common
- Arkenley Lane
- Ashes Common & Ashes Lane
- Ashing Hirst
- Bank End
- Bank Field
- Bar Croft Bottom
- Benholmley
- Berry Brow
- Birks
- Blagden
- Blue Bell Hill
- Boggarding
- Bottoms
- Brickbank
- Broadfield Mills
- Broad Gates
- Broken Cross
- Bum Royd
- Bunkers Hill
- Caldercliffe Rd
- Catterson
- Channel Dike
- Clay Hall
- Close Hill
- Clough Hall & Clough Ings
- Coal Pit Lane
- Cocker Lane
- Cold Hill
- Crooked Tree
- Daisy Royd
- Dam Side
- Deadman Stone
- Dodd's Royd
- Do Royd
- Eldon Ho
- Fair Hill
- Fairlea
- Fenay Bridge
- Fenay Hall
- Finthorpe
- Fletcher Ho
- Goodham Field
- Grass Croft
- Haigh Spring
- Hall Bower
- Hanging Stone
- Hey
- Highroyd
- Hill Side
- Hill Top
- Hudroyd
- Ing Lane
- Jack Royd
- Kaye Lane
- Kidroyd
- Kirk Royd
- King's Mills
- Lady Ho
- Laith Croft
- Lane Side
- Long Croft
- Longley Green, Longley Hall
- Lower Houses
- Lumb
- Lumb Head
- Martin Bank
- New Laith
- Newsome Cross
- Nook
- Northfield Ho
- Northgate
- Oaken Bank Plant
- Oaks
- Oaks Hill
- Little Park, Lower Park & Upper Park
- Park Gate
- Parkton Grove
- Park Wood
- Penny Spring Wood
- Primrose Hill
- Pump Lane
- Quarry Hill
- Robin Hood Hill & Robin Hood Ho
- Rushfield Dike & Rushfield Ho
- Salford
- Sharp Lane
- South Field
- Spa Wood
- Squirrel Ditch
- Stile Common
- Stirley
- Stirley Knoll
- Stone Pit Fm
- Stony Cross Lane
- Sun Green
- Taylor Hill
- Tenter Hill
- Thorpe Fold
- Town End
- Tunnacliffe Hill
- Waingate
- Waterside
- Well Head
- Westgate
- Wheat Royd
- Whitegate Rd
- Whitehead Lane
- Wood Lane
- Yew Croft
- The Acres
- Alison Quarry
- Bank End & Bank Top
- Bartin
- Bent Top
- Bingley Wood
- Bottoms
- Broadfield
- Broadhead Edge
- Burr Fm
- Carr Green
- Cliff
- Clough Head
- Cold Well
- Cross Gate Head
- Digley, Digley Mills, Digley Royd
- Edge End
- Ellis Pond
- Field End
- Flush Ho
- Gibriding Lane
- Goodbent End
- Greaves Head
- Green Alders
- Ruddle Clough
- Schole Croft
- Shaw Bank
- Shoe Broad
- Snailsden
- Snailsden Moss
- Snailsden Pike
- Statham
- Stones
- Sun Wood
- Swiner Clough & Swiner Dike
- Tickle Scar
- Turf Gate
- Twizle Clough & Twizle Hole
- Upper Close
- The Whams
- Wheat Close
- Wilmer Hill
- Fern Bank
- Field End & Field Ho
- Fisher Green
- Folly
- Gill Wood
- Granby Fm
- Grass Croft
- Green Cliff
- Grove Ho
- Gynn Ho, Old Gynn
- Hagg Dike & Hagg Leys, Lower Hagg, New Hagg & Upper Hagg, Hagg Wood
- Haigh Lane
- Hall Ing
- Hassocks
- High Royd
- Hollin Hall & Hollin Hurst
- Holmroyd Nook & Holmroyd Wood
- Honley Head Wood
- Honley Moor
- Honley Old Wood
- Honley Wood
- Hope Bank
- Intake Fm
- Knoll Quarry
- Leather Hall
- Marsh
- Marsh Platt
- Middlefield Ho
- Miry Lane
- Meltham Gate
- Moisy Lane
- Moll Spring
- Moor Croft
- Moorfield Ho
- Moor Park
- New Dam
- Neileys Mill
- New Town
- North Gate
- Oldfield
- Park Riding
- Pontey
- Middle Reins & Upper Reins
- Ridings
- Rye Croft
- Scot Gate
- Seventy Acres
- Shaw Head
- Smithy Place
- South Gate
- Spinner Gate
- Springfield
- Stones Wood
- Swinny Knoll
- Thirstin
- Timinets
- Town Head
- View
- Waterfall
- Well Ho
- Westfield
- West Gate
- West Ho
- Wheatfield Ho
- The Wood
- Wood Bottom
- Wood Nook
- Bankwell Rd
- Barber Row
- Bar Gate
- Binn
- Blackmoorfoot
- Black Rock
- Bottoms
- Brearley Cottage
- Broad Oak
- Burr
- Causeway Side
- Clough Ho, Lower Clough & Upper Clough
- Common End
- Croft
- Daisy Green
- Fields Head
- Flat Ho
- Folly
- Gill Royd
- Green Head
- Green Ho
- Grove Ho
- Guy Edge
- Hazel Grove
- Heath
- Height
- Hey
- Hey Gate & Hey Knowl
- Hey Wood
- High Ho
- The Hold
- Hole in the Wall
- Hollins Green
- Hoyle Ho
- Idle Hill
- Kitchen Clough & Kitchen Field
- Lamb Hey
- Lane
- Lees Ho
- Linthwaite Hall
- Longfield
- Long Wood
- Milnsbridge
- Morley Lane
- Myrtle Grove
- New Gate
- New Royd
- North Ho
- Park
- Pimroyd
- Rock
- Royd Ho
- Rye Croft Edge
- Shaw Green
- Slacks
- Slades
- Slant Gate
- Smithriding
- Spring Grove
- Stocker Head
- Storth
- Tanyard Rd
- Throstle Green
- Wain Gate
- Whiteley Bottom
- Wiggin Cross
- Wild Brow
- Winter Hill
- Yew Tree Lane
- Barkerite Fm
- Barton
- Beaumont Park
- Birk Ho
- Crosland Hall
- Crosland Hill
- Crosland Moor
- Dog Hall
- Dry Clough
- Dungeon Wood
- Felks Stile
- Heath Field
- Hob Lane
- Lane End
- Moor End
- Moorleigh
- Nab Croft
- Northfield
- Park Rd
- Rashcliffe
- Rockfield
- Sands Ho
- Spinkwell Quarries
- Swan Lane
- Thewlis Laith & Thewlis Lane
- Thornfield
- Thornton Lodge Rd
- Tom Lane
- Woodfield Ho
- Yew Green Rd
- The Yews
- Yews Hill
- Acre Head
- Adam Pasture
- Ainsley
- Ashton Binn
- Badger Gate, Badger Hey
- Bank Bottom & Bank Top
- Berry Greave
- Blake Clough
- Blake Lee
- Blakeley, Blakely Clough
- Bobus
- Booth Lathe
- Bowser
- Brack Rolls
- Broadrake Green
- Broad Wham
- Brown Hill
- Buckstones
- Burne Moss
- Burnt Hill
- Butcher Lane
- Butterly
- Butterly Hill
- Cab Whams
- Carr Clough
- Carrs
- Cat Holes
- Cellars Clough
- Chain
- Chamber
- Clark Hill
- Close Flat
- Close Gate Bridge
- Close Moss
- Clough Head
- Clough Lee
- Cradles
- Crow Hill
- Crowther Lane
- Dan Clough
- The Dean
- Dinner Stone
- Dirker (Heys)
- Dry Clough Side
- Duckpit
- Ellen Clough
- Fairfield
- Fair Hill
- Field Bottom
- Firth Pule
- Forest
- Fore Wham
- Foul Moss
- Foxstone Moss
- Garside Hey
- Gate Head
- Gilberts
- Good Hill
- The Grange
- Great Edge
- Green Hill
- Green Hill Clough
- Green Laitch
- Green Owlers
- Grey Stones
- Haigh Ho
- Hard End
- Hard Head
- Hard Hill
- Harrow Hill
- Hatter Lee
- The Heads
- Heathy Lee
- Hemplow Wood
- The Hey
- Hey Brinks
- Hey Cote, Hey Dike, Hey Fold, Hey Green, Hey Heads
- High Gate
- High Lathe
- The Hill
- Hill Top
- Hind Hill
- Hoe Grain
- Hollins Bank & Hollins Ho
- Holme, Holme Moor
- Hopwood
- Horseley Head
- Huck Hill
- Ing Head, Ing Lees
- Inner Hey
- Intake, Intake Head
- Jopes Moss
- Knowl
- Lady Royd
- Laminot
- Lane Ings, Lane Syke
- Laverock Hall
- Layzing Clough
- Leysing Clough
- Linesgreave Head
- Little Fall
- Loadley Clough
- Long Clough
- Long Fold
- Long Grain
- March Clough, March Haigh, March Hill
- Mount Rd
- Nab End
- Nathans
- Naze End, Naze Top & Naze Wood
- Nearmost Grain
- Netherley
- Nether Wood
- Nettle Spring
- New Close
- New Hey
- New Ho
- New Ing
- Oakner Clough
- Old Ash
- Old Clough
- Oldgate Clough
- Old Ho
- Old Mount
- Ottiwells Ho
- Owlers, Far Owlers
- Ox Ho
- Park
- Peters
- Piper Holes, Pipers, Piper Stones
- Planes Ho
- Pudding Real Clough
- Pule Bents & Pule Holes
- Purl Clough
- Rams Clough
- Raven Rocks
- Ready Carr
- Redbrook
- Redmire Lee
- Rigg Shaw
- Rockly's Spring
- Rose Hill
- Rotcher Wood
- Rough Lee
- Round Hill
- Row Greaves
- Great Rushbed
- Rushy Sike Clough
- Sandhill Cottages
- Scar Head
- Scout
- Scout Holes
- Shaw Heys
- Shiny Brook Clough
- Short Grain
- Shot Scar
- Side Ing
- Sike Clough
- Slades
- Small Clough
- Smately Bank
- Smithy Holme
- Sparth
- Spinks Mire Mill
- Spout Ing
- Spring Head
- Stack End
- Stanley Ho
- Stone Folds
- Stonepit Lee
- Stotley Moss
- Stubbing
- Swellands
- Thieves Clough
- Tom Clough
- Tong Lee
- Town Gate
- Far Troughs & Near Troughs
- Warcock (Hill)
- Wards End
- Well Close
- Wham Head
- White Hassock
- White Hull
- White Lee
- White Moss
- White Sike
- Wicken Grain
- Wicking Clough & Wicking Green
- Willykay Clough
- Willmer Green
- Windy Bank
- Winter Clough
- The Wood, Wood Bottom
- Woods
- Worlow
- Ash Royd
- Banister Edge
- Bank Wood
- Belle Vue
- Bellman Castle
- Bent Ley
- Black Moor, Black Moor Foot
- Blue Slate
- Bole Bent, Bole Hole
- Bracken Hills
- Broadlands
- Brow
- Bull Ring
- Burned Hill
- Calf Close Dike
- Calmlands
- Colders
- Copley Ho
- Lower Cote & Upper Cote
- Cowberry Holes
- Craddin Holes
- Croft Ho
- Deer Hill
- Dry Clough
- Dunnock Rd
- Durker
- Featherbed Moss
- Field Head
- Flake Moss
- Fox Royd Green
- Gill Birks
- Gledholt
- Goit
- Golcar Brow & Golcar Hall
- Grains Ash
- Greasy Slack
- Greave Dike, Lower Greave
- Green Bottom
- Green End
- Green Gate Lane
- Green Slack
- Halfroods
- Harden Clough & Harden Hill, Harden Moss
- Harewood Bridge
- Hassocks Rd
- Heady Fields
- Hebble Head
- Hey Green, Lower Hey
- The Heys
- High Moor
- Hollow
- Holt Head
- Ing Ho
- Intake
- Kay Stone Pits
- Knowl Top
- Laggin Plat
- The Laith
- Lane Dike
- Lane Side
- Lathe
- Laund
- Law Coyt
- Legards Slack, Leygards Lane
- Little Moss
- Madge Knoll, Magdalen Clough, Magdalen Hill
- Marten Nest
- Meal Hill
- Mean Lane
- Meltham Cop
- Meltham Edge
- Meltham Grange & Meltham Hall
- Meltham Moor
- Mill Head, Mill Moor
- Millstone Hill
- Moor Ford Hill
- Lower Mount & Upper Mount
- Muddy Brook
- New Bridge
- Oldfield Hill
- Oldham Spring
- Owler Bars
- Pan, Panville
- Pickle
- Popley Butts
- Rams Clough
- Ridge Busk
- Rocking Stone(s)
- Rough Nook
- Round Hill
- Royd
- Royd Edge
- Rushy Grove
- The Scope
- Shoe Broads
- Shooters Nab
- Slack Green
- Slades Lane
- Slate Pits
- Snape Clough, Upper Snape
- Spark Green
- Spinks Mire
- Spring Head
- Sunny Bank
- Sun Royd
- Swinsey Dike
- Tinker Lane
- Town Gate
- Waithe Cross
- Wearley
- Wentworth
- West Gate
- West Nab
- Wet Hill
- Wetlands
- White Holes
- Wicken Stones
- Wilshaw
- Windy Bank
- Wood Nook
- Green Gate
- Green Sikes
- Hart Holes Clough
- High Ings
- Holmbridge
- Hoobram Hill
- Hoowood
- Kiln Acre
- Lower Knowl & Upper Knowl
- Lane
- Long Ing
- Long Walls
- Lumbank
- Mill Dam
- Molly Wells
- Moor Side
- Nether Lane
- Newfield
- New Ho
- New Laith
- Roberts Clough
- Roods Lane
- Rye Close Lane
- Shaw Lane
- Shay Clough
- Sparth Bottom & Sparth Top
- Spring Grove
- Stoney Hill
- Stubbin
- Top o' th' Hill
- Town End
- Well Green
- White Walls
- Yew Tree
- Arborary Lane
- Armitage Fold
- Bank End & Bank Wood
- Butter Nab
- Cocking Steps Bridge
- Corn Bank
- Crab Tree Well
- The Croft
- Crosland Bank
- Crosland Edge
- Daffy Wood
- Dean Clough
- Delves
- Edge End
- Far Fields
- Field Head & Field Ho
- Green Gate Knoll
- Hadden Fm
- Hall Heys Wood
- Hawkroyd Bank
- Healey Ho
- High Brow
- Hill Top
- Intake Lane
- Lower Hall
- Mag Bridge, Mag Brook, Mag Dale & Mag Wood
- Marten Nest
- Mill Croft
- Brown Hill
- Calf Hill Wood
- Carr
- Child o' th' Edge
- Crimbles
- Dock Hill
- Elm, Elmwood
- Folly Dam
- Har Royd
- Holmleigh
- Mark Bottoms
- Moor Gate
- Moor Lane
- Newlands
- Oaklands
- Outlane
- Ox Lane
- Robin Royd
- Sands
- Somerfield
- Spring Grove & Spring Wood
- Thongs Bridge
- Thong Moor
- Town Gate
- Well Green
- Well Ho
- Wickins Dike
- Wolfstones
- Lower Binns, Binns Wood
- Bird Riddings
- Birks Ho
- Black Dike
- Black Gate
- Black Grough End
- Black Hill
- Black Sike
- Broad Lane
- Broad Slade
- Brook Wood
- Buft Sheepfold
- Crow Wood
- Dead Man's Hole
- Dean Clough & Dean Head
- Dean Head Moss
- Dun Hill
- Ellentree Head
- Fair Loans
- Fern Bank
- Ford Inn
- Fox Holes
- Good Bent
- Good Greave
- Far Grain & Near Grain
- Great Dike
- Great Hill
- Green
- Green Lane
- Hart Hill
- Hart Holes
- Heath Cottage
- Moor Lane
- Nan Hob Spring
- Netherfield
- Nether Moor
- Nopper Rd
- Oak Royd Bank
- Sand Beds
- Scar Top
- Spring Head Well
- Spring Wood
- Steps
- Stonepit Hill
- Stony Batter
- The Stubbings
- Top of Croft
- Top of Hill
- Walker Syke
- Well Heads
- White Gate
- Whitegates
- Whitehead Lane
- Wood End
- Anchor Wood
- Arthur Wood
- Bank Foot
- Birks Wood
- Burnt Hill
- Butts
- Carr Wood
- Cliffe Ho
- Crofts
- Early Crofts
- Farnley Bank
- Farnley Common
- Farnley Hey
- Farnley Moor
- Farnley Wood
- Glen Fm
- Green Carrs
- Heath Bank
- Hey Wood
- High Fields
- Hunter Nab
- Leigh Fields
- Lud Hill, Lud Hill Dike
- Lumb Dike & Lumb Royd
- Millgate
- Molly Carr Wood
- Moor Ho
- Netherton
- Mickletown
- Raw Gate
- Roaf Wood
- Royd Ho
- Runlet End
- Shrogg Wood
- Slate Fields
- Toft Lane
- West Wood
- Whinny Wood
- Woodsome Lees
- Hebble Dike & Hebble Lane
- The Hey
- High Ings
- Hill
- Hillock
- Holme Edge
- Holt
- Intake
- The Issues, Issue Clough & Issue Head
- Kaye Edge
- Lane
- Lip Hill
- Lottery Hall
- Modd Lane
- Nether Ho
- New Close
- Newlands
- Park Head
- Prickleden
- Shaley Bottom
- Great Shoot & Little Shoot
- Snape
- Snape Clough
- Snapley Moss
- Spring Head
- Stopes Moor
- Top of Old Burn
- Turton's Edge
- Underhill
- Upper Bank
- Wessenden Head
- Wickins
- Bailey Causeway Moss
- Birchen Bank
- Black Grough
- Bleakmires Rushes
- Boggery Dike
- Britland Edge
- Broadhurst Wood
- Burley Bank
- Causeway Holes
- Cliff Close
- Cook's Study
- Cow Close
- Crooked Edge
- Crossleys Plantation
- Dead Edge
- Digley Wood
- Don Well
- Elbow End
- End Springs
- Far Naze End
- Fern Hill
- Field Head
- Further End Cote
- Gill Hey
- Grains Edge
- Great Dike
- Green Wood
- Gusset Dike
- Hades Peat Pits
- Herbage Hill
- Great Hey & Little Hey
- High Brow
- Hill Gate Sike
- Hoar Clough
- Holme Bank
- Holme Cliff
- Holme Edge
- Holme Moss
- Holme Woods
- Hurling Gutter
- Ings, Ings Bridge
- Kiln Bent
- Lad Clough
- Lane
- Laund Moss
- Lidgate
- Lightens
- Lower Flat
- Meal Mill
- Mould Scar
- Netherley
- Old Gate
- Rake Dike & Rake Head
- Ramsden Clough
- Reaps Moss & Reap Slack
- The Ridge, Ridge Lumb
- Enfield Ho
- Black Moss
- Windy Harbour
- Wood Hey Laith
- Lower Banks & Upper Banks
- Cliff Wood
- Clitheroe (Wood)
- Dean Brook
- Deanhouse
- East Gate
- Binn Moor
- Birken Bank & Birken Holes, Birk Moss
- Riding Wood