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.

Whincop

Other OS name in the Parish of Birker and Austhwaite

Etymology

( ' whin - covered hill ' ) is so named in 1627(PR , Boot) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement