English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Falhouse

Early-attested site in the Parish of Thornhill

Historical Forms

  • Falles 1297 LS
  • del Falles 1303 KF
  • Falches 14 DodsN
  • Falehes 1335 ib
  • the falghes 1424 Rent
  • Falowes 1509 DodsN
  • (the) Fallowes 1534 FF 1587 WillY 1603 PRThl 1654 WillS 1657 Pick
  • Whitley fallowes 1652 PRThl
  • Ouerfallowes 1662 WB146
  • Falhous 1666 PRThl
  • Fall-House 1693 1822 Langd

Etymology

v. falh 'land broken up for cultivation, ploughed land', later 'fallow land'. The later form is due to folk-etymology.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement