Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Salterheble 1553 HfxWill

• Salter hebble Beck 1719 HAS

• -Bridge 1769 1771 M

Etymology

Salterhebble, Salterheble 1553 HfxWill, Salt 'he : 1660 PREll, Salter hebble Beck 1719 HAS 26, 46, -Bridge 1769 ib 14, 285, 1771 M. The first reference is to a bequest for the repair of bridges, 'the battilyng of Soureby brig ' (Sowerby Bridge 140infra ) and to 'the amendyng of Salterheble '; Goodall 248 notes an incident recorded in Almondbury Parish Register when William Brigge was drowned in 1559 as he came over 'a heble or narrow bridge'; cf. also Thirsley hebley 188infra . The word hebble is used also in NCy dial. of 'the wooden hand-rail of a plank-bridge' and of 'a narrow short plank-bridge', and it occurs in several late YW p.ns., Salterhebble ii, 316, Hebble Mills ii, 214, Hebble Bridge 224, Hebble Dike 290, Hebble Beck & Bridge 298, Hebble Bridge & Brook iii, 118, Hebble End 190, and Hebblethwaite (from 1379) (Sedbergh) pt. vi, the f.n. Catlephebbyll (from 1525) 170, Callis 171. Its ultimate origin is unknown, but it may be a derivative of OE  hebban 'to heave, raise'.