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Survey of English Place-Names

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St Bees Stone

Other OS name in the Parish of St Bees

Historical Forms

  • Kyrkbyhaven c.1258 StBA
  • Kirkehaven 1261 ib
  • Kirkebypol 1279 Ass
  • Kyrkebyskales p.1500 StB

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is described as signum sancte Bege insculptum in lapide positum in via tendentem (sic)versus Cleter (StB 368) . In the neighbourhood were Kyrkbyhaven c. 1258 StBA, Kirkehaven 1261 ib . ( cf. Whitehaveninfra 450 ) , Kirkebypol 1279Ass , and Kyrkebyskales p. 1500 StB .

Places in the same Parish