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.

Moorthwaite Spring

Other OS name in the Parish of Dacre

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Morethwaite 1568LRMB . v. mōr , þveit .