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.

Kitchen Ground

Other OS name in the Parish of Irton with Santon

Historical Forms

  • Kitchin Ground 1688 CWx.

Etymology

is Kitchin Ground 1688 CW x. It is there given as the property of John Kitchin ; this family first appears in Irton in 1583 , though John and Nicholas Kechyn are mentioned as tenants in Gosforth in 1466 (AD iv) .