Bickerton
Early-attested site in the Parish of Otley
Historical Forms
- on Biceratuna c.1030 YCh7
- Bicher(t)un 1086 DB
- Bikerton 1323 ADiii
Etymology
'The bee-keepers' farm', v. bīcere , tūn , and cf. Bickerton iv, 247supra . This place is thought to have been in Newall (cf. G. E. Kirk, Thoresby xxxvii, 202); it was in the DB manor of Otley in Gereburg Wapentake (1supra ).
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- The Brow
- The Rough
- Woodhill
- Yewtree Ho
- Crag Fm
- Farnley Hall
- Whinney Gill
- Hensun's Beck
- Nut Well
- Bride Cross Ho
- Dean Beck
- Tewit Pond
- Carr Side
- Farnley Crag
- Farnley Park
- Guy's Bank
- Mick's Gill
- Middle Wood
- Mount Pleasant
- Oxmires Hill
- Quarry Hill
- The Sand Beds
- Yewtree Fm
- Buttoner Ho
- Church Gill
- Lindley Green, Lindley Hall, Lindley Moor, Lindley Wood
- Carr Banks Gill
- Holbeck
- Low Laith
- Newall Carr
- Peashills Plant
- East Park
- Farnley Moor
- Cinder Lane
- Mill Goit
- Pill White
- Springs Wood
- Turner's Gill
- Bishopwood
- Copmanroyd Fm
- Tan Ho
- Eland Wood
- Thornberry Hill
- Graystone Beck
- Millhill Cottage