Fountains Earth
Major Settlement in the Parish of Kirkby Malzeard
Historical Forms
- the morez callid Fontaunce erthe 1540 Fount
- ffountance earth 1598 SessnR
- Fountain's Heath 1724 Yorke
- Fountain's Earth 1822 Langd
Etymology
Named from Fountains 191supra . The second el. earth refers to the moors which constitute a great part of the township; this may be from OE erð 'arable land' but is more probably from eorðe 'earth' used generally to denote 'a tract of land'.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- The Sike
- Skell Gill
- Skell Grain
- South Gill
- Stang Brae
- Stony Hill
- Stubbings
- Sweethill Barn
- Swetton Moor
- Tanhouse Lathe
- Toady Bank
- Wake Hill
- West Hill
- Whin Crags
- Acoras Scar
- Ashfold Side
- Backstean Gill
- Black Hill
- Blayshaw
- Bracken Knott
- Brecken Holes
- Broad Carr
- Broadstone Rigg
- Brown Hill
- Burn Edge
- Burn Gill
- Calfclose Gill
- Calside Dike
- Colt Ho
- Colthouse Gill
- Colt Plain
- Copy Wood
- Corn Close
- Cross Gill
- Dobby Slack
- Duck Dam
- Flay Stones
- Flout Hill
- Fosse
- Foster Beck
- Foul Hole
- Gouthwaite Hall
- Great Scar
- Great Slack
- Green Grooves Gill
- Greenhole Well
- Green Nook
- Green Sike
- Grindstone Hill
- Half Slack
- Hard Gap
- Heathfield Moor, Heathfield Ridge
- Heaton Wood
- Highfield
- High Pasture
- How Stean
- Hub Hill
- Hush Gill
- The Intakes
- Ivy Ho
- Knotts Bridge, Knotts Plant
- Lolly Scar
- Lowfall
- Mark Hill
- Meal Ark
- Merryfield
- Meugher
- Moor Ho
- Nappa Hull
- Park Hagg
- Piece Gill
- Pie Gill
- Rakes Gill
- Ramsgill Bents
- Ramsgill Moor
- Raven Scar
- Riddings Gill
- The Rigg
- Rowantree Gill
- Sandy Dike
- Shaws
- South Gill
- Spring Bank
- Spring Hill
- Spring Ho
- Squire Well
- Stangate
- Stean Pasture
- Stock Ridge
- Straight Stean Beck
- Stubnooks Gill
- Stud Fold
- Sweet Close Gill
- Swine Beck Knotts
- Thornhill
- Washfold Gill, Washfold Wham
- Well Ho
- West End Lathe
- Westfield Ho
- West Gill
- West Ho
- West Wood
- Whey Crag
- Whit Beck Ho
- White Stean Well
- Wig Stones
- Wising, Wising Gill
- Yew Bank
- Armathwaite
- Aygill
- Bain Grain Beck
- Blackawell Lathe
- Black Fell, Black Fell Scar
- Blake Hill
- Blowing Gill
- Brown Hill
- Bull Brae
- Buskar Beck
- Calfhead
- Carle Fell
- Carle Well
- Cat Hole
- Clack Gill
- Cliff Wood
- Cocklake
- Cockley Gap
- Craven Sike
- Crook Dike
- Cross Gill
- East Gill
- Foggyshaw Gill
- Foul Hole Wood
- Friar Hood
- Gladstones
- Gun Hill Dike
- Haden Carr
- Hard Bank
- Haugh Crags
- Haver Close
- Haw Gill, Great Haw, Little Haw
- Hazel Close
- Highthwaite
- Holme Barn
- How Gill
- Hurders, Hurders Edge
- In Moor
- Intake Gill, Intake Ho
- Kay Head
- Lodge
- Long Crag
- Maddering Gill
- Maiden Gill
- Mere Dike
- Nab End
- Nidd Head
- North Moor
- Northside Head
- Peat Hill
- Peter Holme Laithe
- Pettyholme Barn
- Pony Well
- Pry Ho
- Pudding Hill
- Rain Stang
- Raydale Knotts
- Red Scar
- Riggs, Riggs Moor
- Rundleside
- Ruscoe
- Sandy Gate
- Sandy Sikes Gill
- Scar Ho
- Shaw Gill
- Skitter Gill
- Smithfield Hall
- Snout End
- Staining Gill
- Stand Sike
- Stone Head Pasture
- Summerstone Lodge
- Teatherah Wood
- Thornet Gill
- Turnacar
- Twizling Gill
- Wench Gill
- West Gill
- Wising Gill
- York Dike
- Azerley Chase, Azerley Grange, Azerley Park
- The Batts
- Beck Wood
- Carr Ho
- The Chequer
- Coal Bank Wood
- Cote Hill
- Cow Myers
- Craven Gill
- Falcon Ho
- Frizer Hall
- Galphay Moor, Galphay Wood
- Gate Bridge
- Greenass Fm
- High Bank
- Hills Wood
- Holetrough
- Hubber Wood
- Ings Well
- Knox Hill
- Mickley Barras
- Mossy Mire
- Nap Cote Lane
- Nether Close
- Newfield
- Oak Tree Fm
- Owster Hill
- Oxley's Plant
- Shellums Wood
- Simfield
- Skeaf Ho
- The Stray
- The Stripes
- Stroden Barn
- Toad Hole
- Warren Lane Ho
- Westfield
- West Lees
- Wetshod Lane
- Wood Ho
- Arna Nab Wood
- Backstone Gill
- Bleasfield
- Blue Burnings
- Boggle Dike
- Boysoak Scar
- Bracken Ridge
- Brig Stones
- Bull Dike Head
- Byerbeck Gill
- Cockle Hill
- Dauber Gill
- Dry Wath
- East Side
- Fox Crag
- Goydin Pot Hole
- Green Gate
- Helks
- High Scar
- High Well
- Hollin Hill
- Horse Helks
- Intake Gate
- Jordan Moss
- Kelds
- Lamb Close
- Light Hill
- Ling Hall
- Lofthouse Moor
- Longside Ho
- Lulbeck Crags
- Masey Edge
- Moor Edge
- Moss Wood
- Nidd Heads
- Ouster Bank
- Red Scar
- Robin Hood's Park
- Rough Close Gill
- Sandscar Wood
- Sigsworth Crags, Sigsworth Moor
- Spring Wood
- Stott Wood
- Swinelops Wood
- Sype Land
- Trapping Hill
- Whin Pasture
- Yates Wood
- Billey Keld
- Black Hill Ho
- Black Pasture Hill
- Bush Fm
- Camp Fm, Camp Hill
- Carle Top
- Crags Wood
- Ellershaw Wham
- The Fleet
- Foulgate Nook
- Green Banks
- Green Seat
- Grewelthorpe Moor
- Grove Dale
- Holmes Fm
- Horsepasture Hill
- How Carr
- The Hutts
- Hutts Gill, Hutts Wood
- Langwith, Langwith Cross, Langwith Ridge
- Limehouse Hill
- Ling Scar
- Mouscar
- Mowbray Castle
- Mowbray Hall
- Muley
- Naegill End
- Nook Ho
- North Park
- Oakstile Fm
- Plover Hall
- Quarry Hill
- Raven Scar
- Ruddings Lane
- Sandbed Hut
- Sandwith Wham
- Spring Hall
- Spring Hill
- Stock Wath
- The Strand
- Tent Plain
- Thistle Hill
- Thorpe Grange
- Tranmire Goit
- Wandley Gill
- Wilfram Hill
- Wolf Crags
- Wreaks Beck
- Bagwith Brae
- Bawd How Hill
- Beck Meetings
- Black Dike
- Carlesmoor Beck
- Carr Ho
- Cow Scot Lane
- Creets Bridge
- Dogell Top
- Drift Lane
- Fleaks Wath
- Foul Sike
- Gillgate Rd
- Greystone Head
- Haylands Bank, Haylands Cross
- Hedge Nook
- High Keld
- Holmeside
- High Intake, Low Intake
- Kirk Bank, Kirk Bridge
- Kirkby Malzeard Moor
- Lawnwith
- Maiden Crags
- Mowbray Castle (site), Mowbray Ho
- Newland Ho
- North Close
- North Pasture
- Park Wood
- Ring Beck
- Rowantree Dike
- Stone & Ears
- The Stripe
- Summer Edge
- Three Hills
- Thwaite Ho
- Willow Ho
- Belford
- Bents Ho
- Bogs
- Burnt Heath
- Carter Sike Ho
- Cast Hills, Castiles Fm
- Catherine's Stones
- Cole Dike
- Cow Hill
- Cow Close
- Creeks
- Cross Hills
- Dallow Gill
- Dallow Hall
- Dallow Moor
- Dalton Lodge
- Deep Gill
- Edge Hill
- The Fleet, Fleet Seaves
- Foster Crags
- Grain Beck
- Great Scar
- Green Bank
- Greygarth
- Grey Green
- Hambleton Flask, Hambleton Hill
- Harper Hill
- Harry Cross
- Hart Hole
- Hawset
- Hell Holme Bank
- High Cross
- High Hill
- Hill
- Hogerston Hill
- Horse Plain
- The Island
- Jordan Moss
- Knott
- Lady Hill
- Lamb Close
- Lingy Close
- Lumbley Moor
- Lund Stones
- Malaby Ho
- Moss Pits
- North Cross
- North Gill
- Old Oaks
- Owse Head
- Owset Well
- Paddles Bog
- Peg Pasture
- Potter Lane
- Pye Carr
- Ray Carr
- Robin Rake Wath
- Rowantree Gill
- Ruckle Hill
- Ruddings Plant
- Sandstone Ridge
- Scrubdale Wood
- Shaws
Early-attested site
- Heathfield
- Ramsgill
- Raygill Ho
- Stean
- Angram
- Limley
- Middlesmoor
- New Houses
- Westhouses
- Great Whernside, Little Whernside
- Woodale, Woo Gill
- Braithwaite Hall
- Galphay
- Littley
- Mickley
- Bouthwaite
- Covell Houses
- Holme Ho
- Kettlestang Cross, Kettlestang Hill
- Lofthouse
- Poppleton
- Sigsworth Grange
- Sikes
- Thrope Ho
- Throstle Hill
- Thwaite Ho
- Bramley Grange
- Carlesmoor
- Ellershaw
- Fingerfield
- Hack Fall
- Roomer Common
- Malzeard
- Bagwith Ho
- Biggin or Carr Haw
- Kex Moor
- Stainmoor
- Dallow
- Lumbley Fm
- Lunter Stones
- Missies
- Swetton