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.

Mount Hulie

Other OS name in the Parish of Askerton

Historical Forms

  • Mounthulley 1748 ib

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Mounthulley 1748 ib . Mount Hoolie occurs as a street - name in several Scots burghs , e.g. Aberdeen and Kirkwall . It is presumably the imperative of a verb plus and adverb — ' mount gently . '