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.

Clunters

Early-attested site in the Parish of Halifax

Etymology

Clunters, 1624 Greave, 1669FGr 20, 1758 TaxS. The el. clunter occurs several times in late names in this par. (cf. Clunter Clough 126supra , Clunters 164, 180, 197); it is dial. clunter 'a clod of earth' (related to, if not a loan from, MDu  clunter 'a lump').

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement