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.

Seatallan

Other OS name in the Parish of Nether Wasdale

Historical Forms

  • Settallian 1783 Donald

Etymology

is Settallian 1783 Donald . Presumably a late record of an inversion compound meaning ' Alein 's sætr . ' Cf. Starling Dodd supra 411 .