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Survey of English Place-Names

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Triangle

Early-attested site in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • (the) Triangle 1777 HAS 1785 HAS

Etymology

Triangle, 1817 M, (the ) Triangle 1777 HAS 52, 107, 1785 HAS 16, 240, named from the triangular piece of ground formed between the turnpike to Lancashire and Oak Hill on which the Triangle Inn stands; in 1839 it was described as a farmstead with five fields (ValS ) and is now an industrial village; Queensbury 87supra similarly developed from an inn-name. Triangle has replaced the older name Stansfield Pond (v. The Pond infra , HAS 52, 107).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name