Scurff Hall
Early-attested site in the Parish of Drax
Historical Forms
- Scurth(e) 13 Drax14 1552 WillY 1615 FF
- Skurth 1495,1503 Ipm
- Schurt 1364 YDvi
- Scorthe 1421 YI
- Scourthehall 1548 FF
- Schurf 1405 YI
- Skarfe 1558 DodsN
- Scurffe 1595 FF
- Scurf Hall 1817 M
Etymology
v. ON skurðr 'a cutting, a water-channel'; there is a small ditch here now called Willow Row Drain running into the Ouse, but the name may originally have denoted a larger water-course connecting Hawday (9supra ) with the Ouse. On the development of -th to -f cf. Phonol. § 49.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Camela Ho & Camela Wood
- Brock Holes
- Draxburgh
- Drax Hales
- Hawday Lane
- Northwoods
- Wood Ho
- Little Airmyn
- Lane Ho
- Rusholme Grange & Rusholme Hall
- Stanhill
Other OS name
- Barff's Close Plant
- Brigg Lane
- Camblesforth Common
- Camblesforth Hall
- Cat Babbleton
- Chester Court
- Clay Lane
- Cobble Croft Wood
- Common End & Common Ho
- Crossley Wood
- Gale Gap Lane
- Hardenshaw Lane
- Jub Close Wood
- King's Wood
- Kirby's Wood
- Kit Bain's Wood
- Ling Croft Wood
- Marshall Shaw Wood
- Mill Ho & Mill Lane
- New Close Plant
- Pear's Bridge
- Port Jackson
- Rabbit Hill
- Sale Hill Fm
- Sand Pit (Wood)
- Stapleton's Wood
- Water Lane
- Weddall's Plant
- Brickhill Lane
- Brigg Lane
- Castle Hills
- Church Dike Lane
- Cross Bank
- Drax Hall
- Mill Ho
- Wade House
- Westfield Ho
- Willow Row
- Wren Hall
- Abbeyfield Clough
- Ash Spring Wood
- Baxter Hall
- Black Tom Staith
- Burr Wheel
- Camblesforth Grange
- Carr Dike
- Drax Abbey
- Langrick Reach
- Lendall Clough & Lendall Drain
- Nellyfield Ho
- Ormerley Carr
- Redhouse Lane
- Sand Lane
- Sharp Hill Lane
- Summercroft
- Tiltingfield Clough
- Woodcock Wood
- Asselby Island
- Brier Lane
- Dickon Field Clough
- Fort Hill
- Jeram Fm
- Mill Hill
- Mill Lane
- Newland Field
- Newland Hall
- New Lane
- Quarter Gate Lane
- Seg Lane
- Thorntree Fm
- Willow Row Drain
- Wood Lane