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.

Dead Man's Slack

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkoswald

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is so named in 1859 (CW xiv) . It is said to have been the burial place of plague victims ( Fetherstonhaugh , 39 – 40 ) .