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.

Overbank

Other OS name in the Parish of Gawsworth

Etymology

, 1831 ib , ' above the hill-side ' , v. ofer 3 , banke , cf. Underbank infra .