Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Mountskippet Lane 1800 Eden

• Mount Sciputt 1822 OS

Etymology

, Mountskippet Lane 1800 Eden, Mount Sciputt 1822 OS ; this name is somewhat widespread ; there are four Mount Skippitts , in Ramsden O , Aconbury He , Owermoigne Do , Kidderminster Wo ( VCH Wo II , 297 ) , one Mount Skeppet , in Penn Bk , one Mount Skep , south of Galashiels in Selkirkshire , one Mount Skippett ( 1838 ) , in Almondsbury Gl ( Gl 3, 109 ) , three places called Mountskip , in Crossmichael Galloway , Tintwistle Ch , and Mobberley Ch ( 1839 ) , two places called The Skippets , in Whitchurch O and Painswick Gl , one called Skippets Ho near Basingstoke Ha , and a Lower and Higher Skippet 3 miles W . of Dorchester Do ; no etymology can be suggested , and no spellings have so far been noted earlier than the 19th cent .