Elsey
Early-attested site in the Parish of Skipton
Historical Forms
- Elsho 1266 MinAcct
- Neleshou 1276 RH
- Eyleshou 1278 Ch 1278 YDi
- Eleshow(e) 1290 Whit 1301 YI
- Elsowe 1422 YI
- Elsewoode 1577 Holinshed
- Elsey 1596 PRSk
Etymology
Elsey, Elsho 1266MinAcct , Neleshou 1276 RH, Eyleshou 1278 Ch, 1278 YD i, Eleshow (e )1290 Whit 383, 1301 YI, Elsowe 1422 YI, Elsewoode 1577 Holinshed, Elsey 1596 PRSk. There is some ambiguity in the spellings and though Neles - could be from OIr Nel , Níall (borrowed as ON Njáll ) and Eyles - from ON Egill , most spellings point to the OE pers.n. El (l )i . v. haugr 'mound, hill' or hōh 'hill'.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Barden Scale, The Scale
- Brayshaw
- Drebley
- Gamsworth
- Bolton Bridge
- Riddings
- Berwick
- Hambleton
- Lob Wood
- Crookrise Wood
- Eastby
- Kempley Beck
- Cawder Gill, Cawder Hall
- The Haw, Hawbank, Haw Beck & Haw Park
- Old Park
- Skibeden
- Snaygill
- Thorlby
- Holme Ho
- Ingha Bridge
Other OS name
- Agill
- Alder Seat
- Ashwood Well
- Asick Bottom & Asick Brow
- Barden Beck
- Barden Bridge
- Barden Broad Park
- Barden Fell
- Barden Forest
- Barden Moor
- Barden Tower
- Black Sike
- Blands Beck
- Brass Castle
- Brown Band
- Brown Hill
- Bull Coppy Wood
- Bumby Dike
- Carncliff Crag
- Civy Sike
- Clifford's Seat
- Cloven Crag
- Club Nook
- Cony Warren
- Cross Gill
- Dale Head
- The Devil's Apronful
- Duck Rake Seat
- Earl Seat
- Eastwood Head
- Eller Carr Hill
- Flask Brow
- Folly Top
- Fox Close Seat
- Garrelgum
- Gill Beck
- Grape Lane
- Green Hill
- Green Thorn Hill
- Grey Stone
- Hagg Wood
- Hare Head Side
- Hazelshaw Green
- Hen Stones
- Herds Hill
- Hole Ho
- Holme Ho
- How Beck
- Howgill
- Hutchen Gill
- Intake Plant
- Kittlety Sike
- Laund
- Little Gate
- Long Band
- Long Crag
- Longdub Crag
- Long Gill
- Lord's Seat
- Lord's Stoop Well
- Low Ho
- Lumb Gill (Head)
- Margaret Well
- Mason Holme
- Middle Tongue
- Moor Lane
- Mucky Park
- Nab Seat
- Nell Bark, Nelly Park Wood
- Park Hill & Park Nook
- Peggy West's Well
- Pismire Hills Well
- Pitshaw
- Saddle Ridge
- Sand Bed Gate
- Sartree Crag
- Sheepshaw Beck
- Simm Bottom
- Simon's Seat
- Smithyman Nook
- Springs Wood
- Standard Flat
- Stoney Bank
- Strid-Hill
- Truckle Crags
- Turnmer Hill
- Water Gate
- The Whams
- White Wham Beck
- Wood End
- Yethersgill
- Bolton Hall
- Catgill
- Cowpert Gate & Cowpert Gill
- Hambleton Beck & Hambleton Ho
- Hare Head
- Hawkstone
- Heskitt Ho
- Hollin Beck
- Holm Deep
- Howsber
- Laverock Gill
- Long Pull
- Low Ho
- Lud Stream
- Sand Holme
- Scar Top
- Skiphouse Wheel
- Stank (Ho)
- Stone Chair
- The Strand
- The Strid, High Strid
- Ungain Deep
- Westy Bank Wood
- Banks Gill & Banks Hill
- Berwick Intake
- The Bogs
- Chelker
- Draughton Bottom, Draughton Height & Draughton Moor
- Eller Car Wood
- Fallows Laithe
- Field Ho
- Flat Bridge
- Hag Head
- Hare Knoll
- Harry Wall Gill
- Haw Pike
- Haynholme
- High Edge
- High Row
- Holywell (Bank)
- Howgill Beck & Howgill Plant
- Huffa Bridge & Huffa Lane
- Nettleber
- Newlands Gill
- Prior Bridge
- Stoneacre Gill
- Thornber
- Ward Hill
- Wheelam Rock
- Angrymire Laithe
- Bark Laithe
- Bent Stones
- Bilton Ings
- Boncroft
- Bow Bridge
- Brackenley
- Bracken Slack
- Broad Stone
- Brown Bank
- Clifford's Tower
- Crag End, Crag Ho & Crag Top
- Crow Crag
- Cuckhaw
- Deer Gallows Ridge
- Eastby Crag
- Embsay Crag
- Embsay Kirk
- Embsay Pasture
- Flates Barn
- Garros Lane
- Green Bottom
- Greenside
- Grey Field
- Hag Ho
- Harts Hill
- Herd Hill
- Heugh
- High Mark
- Hill Top
- Hunter's Lane
- Hut Crag
- Inmire Laithe
- Intake Ho
- Lowburn Gill
- Mill Holme
- Monk's Well
- Moor Beck
- Mossley Stones
- Nettlehole Ridge & Nettlehole Wood
- New Hall
- Oddacre Ho
- Padmire
- Pig & Sow
- Prior's Sike
- Rams Gill
- Red Gill
- Rotten Park
- Saddle Holes
- Sawley Grange
- Shelter Cliff
- Shires Lane
- Standard
- Stone Ridge
- Stonycliff Brow
- Studfold
- Tewit Bogs
- Three Brothers
- Tun Stone
- Washfold Hill
- Wayshaw Bogs
- White Stones
- Whitfield Sike
- Witshaw Bank
- Angrybottoms
- Berry Ground Beck
- Black Hill
- Bracken Slack
- Brown Mire
- Calm Slate
- Crag Ho
- Crakelands Ho
- Eastfield Hull
- Foreshotts Laithe
- Gaw Lane
- Gotgill's Well
- Green Beck
- Halton Edge, Halton Gill, Halton Green, Halton Hall, Halton Height & Halton Moor
- Ings Beck
- Lillands Beck
- Long Croft Hull
- Lumb Gill
- Lythe Bank
- Mawking Hole
- New Bridge Lane
- New Laithe
- Prior's Lane
- Riddings Hull
- Thorn Haws Laithe
- White Ho
- Wickman Lane
- Aireville
- Ashgarth
- Burnside
- Cawder Gill
- Close Ho
- The Cote
- Cross Bank
- Currer Laithe
- Elsey Croft
- Endcliffe
- Gallow Syke
- Gawflat Bridge
- Goldheys Laithe
- Harewood Plant
- Holywell Bridge
- Horse Close Bridge
- Middle Town
- Short Lee Lane
- Skipton Bridge, Skipton Castle & Skipton Moor
- Snaygill Ings
- Snow Hill
- Sod Hill
- Sougha Gill
- Spring Field
- Standard
- Stirtonber
- Storems Laithe
- Sun Moor
- Tarn Moor
- Waltonwrays Laithe
- West Bank
- Whinfield
- Holme Bridge
- Hoober Hill
- Langer Hill
- Ling Hill
- Lord's Wood
- Low Wood
- Mickle Hill
- Monk Hill
- Niffany Hill
- Nonegoby
- Owlet Ho
- Robin Hill
- Sandy Beck
- Skyrakes
- Sour Lane
- Tarn Ho
- White Hills
- Ings Lane
- Little Wood
- Massa Flat
- Mid Keavels
- Nor Hill
- Overdale
- Parker's Hull
- Raikes
- Rockwood
- Sandylands
- Shale Plant
- Whinny Gill
- Wilderness (Beck)
- Woodlands
- Bents Wood
- Bog Wood
- Cock Hill
- Dead Eye
- Gandering Laithe
- Gawber Hill
- Hey Hill
- Highgate
- Hollin Wood
- Sulber Hill
- Thorlby Springs
- Waddow Lane
- Woomber Beck & Woomber Hill