Friar Mere
Early-attested site in the Parish of Rochdale
Historical Forms
- Frear Me(e)re 1582 SadD 1771 M
- Friermere 1733 YDr
- Frier Meer 1817 M
Etymology
Friar Mere, 1468 Sad, Frear Me (e )re 1582 SadD, 1771 M, Friermere 1733 YDr, Frier Meer 1817 M, v. frere 'friar', (ge)mǣre 'boundary'.The Black Friars are said to have had a house near Delph. This was one of the quarters or meres of Saddleworth township, and mere represents an extension of meaning of OE (ge)mǣre; it is used of the other quarters of Saddleworth and occasionally elsewhere, as in Thurlestone Meare i, 344 supra .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Delph, New Delph
- Castleshaw
- Diggle
- Harrop Dale
- Hilbrighthope
- Holly Grove
- Lord's Mere
- Quick
- Saddleworth Firth
- Shaw Hall, Shaw Mere
- Denshaw
Other OS name
- Alderman's Hill
- Birches
- Blindstones Moss
- Brown Hill
- Clough Ho
- Dean Head & Dean Rocks
- Foulrakes
- Friar Naze & Friar Wood
- Friezland
- Fur Lane
- Garners
- Gate Head
- Golburn Clough
- Grains
- Grange
- Grange Hey
- Grasscroft
- Great Gruff
- Greave
- Hay Bottoms
- Hind Hill
- Junction
- Lark Hill
- Nab End
- North Clough
- North End
- Northern Rotcher
- Oak Hole
- Oaklands
- Old Hey
- Old Horse Head Pile
- Oven Stones
- Ox Hey
- Ox Rake
- Pennyworth
- Pickhill Brook
- Pike Ho
- Pilling Brook
- Pinfold
- Pingle Mill
- Rough Hey
- Royle Clough
- Running Hill
- Rush Slack
- Rye Fields
- Rye Top
- Saddleworth Fold
- Sail Bark Rocks
- Salterhebble
- Sandbed
- Scout
- Settstones Lane
- South Clough
- Spring Head
- Spring Hill
- Stable Clough
- Stains
- Standing Stones
- Lower Stones & Upper Stones
- Stubbing
- Sugar Loaf
- Summer Hill
- Turney Bank
- Wade Hill
- Wain Stones
- Wall Hill
- Warlow Pike
- Warmsey Clough
- Warrock Hill
- Warth Mills
- Water Clough
- Waters
- Waterside
- Weakey
- Well Head
- Wood
- Woolleys
- Woolroad
- Yarns Hill
- Yeoman Hey
- Yew Tree
- Ashes Lane
- Ashfield Ho
- Austerlands
- Back o' th' Low
- Bar Stacks
- Black Leach
- Blunder Hall
- Brown Hill
- Den Hill
- Harbour Hill
- New Houses
- Walkers
- Adam's Cross
- Birchen Clough
- Bleak Hey Nook
- Brow
- Church Bank
- Dale
- Dry Bridge
- Frenches
- Green Brow
- Hill Top
- Holden
- Hollin Bank
- Hollin Brown Knoll
- Hollin Hall
- Hollin Heys
- Hollins
- Holme Clough
- Horest Fm
- Howels Head
- Hull Brook
- Hunters Hill
- Husteads
- Kiln Green
- Kinders, Kinder Stones
- Knarr
- Knoll, Knoll Top
- Knott Hill
- Knowl
- Laceby
- Ladcastle
- Laddow Moss
- Ladhill
- Marsh
- The Nook
- Oaken Hill & Oaken Lee
- Pots & Pans
- Round Hill
- Shaws
- Spring Field
- Tame Croft
- Upperwood Ho
- Whams
- Woodmans
- Carrhouse Fm
- Claytons
- Clough Head
- Cookcroft
- Cold Ho
- Cover Hill
- Grotton Head
- High Lee
- High Moor
- Intake
- Knowsley
- Lane
- Load Hill
- Load Hill Platting
- Lowbrook
- Lydgate
- Higher Thorps & Lower Thorps
- White Gates
- Windy Harbour
- Wood Brook
- Acker
- Alphin
- Armit Rd
- Ashway Gap & Ashway Hey
- Badger Edge & Badger Slack
- Bakestone Delph
- Ballgrove
- Bank Clough & Bank Gap
- Bell Yard
- Bent
- Bentcliffe
- Bentleys
- Beswick
- Blea Green
- Board Hill
- Boarshurst
- Boggart Stones
- Boothstead
- Bowk Ho
- Briarfield
- Brimmy Croft
- Broad Greave Hill
- Broadhead
- Broadhead Moss & Broadhead Noddle
- Broad Meadow
- Broad Stones
- Broadstone Hill
- Chew Hills
- Coal Clough
- Colt Hill
- Cote Intake
- Cotemans
- Court Mill
- Cowards
- Crane Knoll
- Crawshaw Hey
- Crib
- Critchley Cottage
- Crompton Knoll
- Crook Gate
- Cross
- Dowry Castle Hill
- Fox Stone
- Green Ash
- Hearth Hill Fm
- Hoar Clough
- Lamb Knoll
- Lee Cross
- Liftrey Dike
- Linfitts, Linthwaite
- Load Clough
- Long Clough
- Long Ridge
- Low Gate Lane
- Lumb Hole Brook
- Lurden
- Manns
- Mantley (Gate)
- Marled Earth
- Martin Ho
- Mere Clough
- Middle Edge Moss
- Mill Croft
- Moor Croft
- Moor Dale
- Moor Gate, Moor Lane
- Mountain Fm
- Mow Walls Lane
- Mytholme Bridge
- Nut Bottom
- Pob Green
- Rough Knarr
- Shaw Gate & Shaw Rocher
- Spa Clough
- Swainscroft Fm
- Upper Mill
- Wham
- Woodbrow
- Cabin
- Doctor Ho
- Herds Low
- New Royd
- Warm Hole
- Bill o' Jacks
- Birch Scar
- Bird Grain
- Black Chew Head
- Brockley Moor
- Brun
- Brun Moor
- Burnedge
- Butts Lane
- Calf Hey
- Carr, Carrcote
- Cartshead
- Castle Hill
- Causeway Sett
- Charnel Holes
- Cherry Clough
- Chew Brook
- Dacres Hall
- Delph Greave
- Delph Slack
- Den Quarries
- Denshaw Moor
- Dick Hill
- Diggle Brook, Diggle Edge
- Diggle Lee
- Dish Stone
- Dob Cross
- Dodle
- Dolefield
- Dove Stone Wood
- Dowry Green
- Dry Clough
- Dry Croft
- Dunge Booth
- Edge End &, Edge Hill
- Fairbanks
- Fair Springs
- Featherbed Moss
- Fernhill
- Fern Lee
- Fernthorpe Hall
- Ferny Holes
- Field Ho
- Greaves
- Greenfield
- Greenfield Brook
- Green Grain
- Greenmans
- Green Oak Fm
- Grove Ho
- Haigh Gutter
- Halls
- Hanson Ho
- Harrop Cote, Harrop Edge, Harrop Green
- Haw Clough
- Hawk Yard
- Hawthorpe Hall
- Heathfields
- Heights
- Hezzlegreave
- Hey
- Hey Barn
- Heys
- High Grove Ho
- High Stile
- The Hill
- Hill End
- Hills Fm
- Intake
- Lane Head
- Marshlands
- Noon Sun (Hill)
- Platt Hill
- Pottery Hill
- Priest Clough
- Rag Stone
- Rams Clough
- Rapes (Hill)
- Raven Stones
- Readycon Dean
- Reaps
- Ridge
- Rimmon Pit Clough
- Rocher Moss
- Settling Well
- Shepherds Green
- Sherbrook
- Ship Fm
- Slack Gate & Slack Head
- Slades (Barn)
- Slate Pit Moss
- Sunfield
- New Tame & Old Tame
- Tame Water
- Tang
- The Thorns
- Thurston Clough
- Thurstons
- Tunstead
- Turner Hill
- Wellihole
- Wharmton
- White Brook
- White Gate
- White Ho
- White Lee
- Wibsey
- Wicken Clough
- Wickens
- Wildcat Low
- Wilderness
- Wimberry Stones
- Butt Fm
- Crawshaw Bent
- Earnshaw Head
- Green Leach
- Grotton
- Mason Row
- The Pastures
- Quick Edge Fm
- Red Ho
- Roebuck Low
- Round Hill
- Scout Head
- Shelderslow
- Stone Breaks
- Strines
- Thornlee