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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.

Melthwaite

Other OS name in the Parish of Irton with Santon

Etymology

is so named in 1679 ib. Melthwaite Side appears on the maps of Hodskinson ( 1774 ) Greenwood ( 1823 ) but not on the earliest OS . v. mel(r) , þveit , as supra 359 .