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.

Hoylake

Other OS name in the Parish of St Oswald's

Historical Forms

  • lacum de Hildeburghey que vocatur le Heypol 1254–83 Chest 14

Etymology

. The Hoylake anciently extended to Hilbre Island , and was lacum de Hildeburghey que vocatur le Heypol 1254–83 (14) Chest , v. 299supra , cf. Emeslake supra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement