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.

Hook's Brook & Hook's Rough

Other OS name in the Parish of Tilston

Historical Forms

  • Hawks 1840 TA

Etymology

, Hawks 1840TA , from hōc , halc ' a hook of land ' , alluding to the land in the bend of Hook 's Brook at 109 – 467523 . The brook joins Carden Brook supra .