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.

Scarness

Other OS name in the Parish of Bassenthwaite

Historical Forms

  • Scareness 1784 West
  • Scarnhouse 1787 ClarkeM

Etymology

is Scareness 1784 West, Scarnhouse 1787ClarkeM . Scarn is a Cumberland dialect word for dung , from OE scearn .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement