Stirton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Skipton
Historical Forms
- Stratton(a) 12 Bolt 1120–47 Dugdvi 1155–8 YChvii 1428 FA
- Strettun, Stretton c.1140 Dugdvi 1152–5 YChvii 1226 FF 1241–9 YChvii 1273 YDi 1418 YI
- Stretton in Craven 1373 YDiv
- Stretone 1155 Bolt
- Streiton 1405 YI
- Styrton, Stirton 1537 WillY 1546 YChant 1822 Langd
- Sturton 1556,1604 FF 1796 PRAdd
- Sturton in Craven 1589 FF
- Sterton 1617 PRSk
Etymology
'Farmstead near the street', v. strǣt , tūn ; cf. Sturton iv, 100supra .The village is near the main road through Airedale from Skipton to Kendal.
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
- Elsey
- 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