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.

Goat

Other OS name in the Parish of Hutton Soil

Historical Forms

  • the Goate 1559 PR(Greystoke)
  • Goatt 1560 ib
  • the Goyt 1574 ib
  • the Goote 1607 ib

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is the Goate 1559 PR (Greystoke), Goatt 1560 ib., the Goyt 1574 ib., the Goote 1607 ib. , dial . gote , ' water course . ' Cf. the Goate Rawe 1633PR (Greystoke) and Goat in Papcastle infra 309 .