Knipe Close & Knipe Scar
Early-attested site in the Parish of Kettlewell
Historical Forms
- Gnip 12,l.12 Font 1176 YChvii
- Knipe Scartht 1268 Font
- Knypeflatt 1580 Skp
- Knipe Chas1 Whit
Etymology
Knipe Close & Knipe Scar, Gnip 12, l. 12 Font, 1176 YCh vii, Knipe Scartht 1268 Font, Knypeflatt 1580Skp 1, Knipe Chas 1 Whit 204.ON gnípa 'a steep rock or peak, an overhanging rock in a valley'.The name refers to the Scar or outcrop of rock at the end of the long narrow ridge between Kettlewell Dale and Littondale.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Black Dike
- Calfhalls
- Gain Bank
- Gill Side Wood
- Hagues Barn
- Hall Ings
- Haw Fields
- Hay Dike
- Hay Tongue
- Highgate Leys
- Holts
- Hoobank
- Hooksbank
- Hunger Hill
- Hush Gill
- Keld Head
- Langcliffe
- Longroods
- Lord's Wood
- Low Holmes
- Mear Rd
- Mile Ho
- Mirk Slack
- Monk Barn, Monk Leys
- Moor End
- Nab End
- New Lathe
- Out Gate
- Paradise
- Park Gill & Park Rash
- Rain Slack
- Scar Gill
- Scar Top
- Sheep House Barn
- Slatepit Rigg
- The Slit
- Springs Wood
- Thorn Clod Hill
- Tor Dike
- Town End
- Tug Gill
- West Field Barn
- Wetlands
- Whernside Pasture
- Wibbertons Fields
- Black Keld
- Bowasty
- Briest Ing
- Brokenbrea
- Bussy Ho
- Cay Crays
- Gate Cote Scar
- Knuckle Bone Pasture
- Scabbate Gate Wood
- Step Gill
- Top Mere
- Aynhams
- Borrans
- Cam Gill Beck, Cam Head, Cam Holes, Cam Pasture & Cam Scar
- Cow Pasture Wood
- Crookacre
- Crookadike Barn
- Cross Barn, Cross Fields & Cross Wood
- Cruts Barn
- Dowber Gill
- Dow Cave
- Dropping Scar
- Eshber Wood
- Fears Gill
- Firth Fell & Firth Wood
- Flats
- Fosse Gill & Fosse Wood
- Fox Scar
- Kettlewell Bridge
- Lightbeds
- East Scale Park & West Scale Park
- Sweet Hill
- Beeweston
- Bounty
- Caseker Scar
- Gamersay
- Kettlewell Cam
- Limekiln Pasture
- Starbotton Cam, Starbotton Fell & Starbotton Out Moor
- Tippering Lane