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.

Height

Other OS name in the Parish of Westward

Historical Forms

  • hurthwayte heed 1570 ExchKR
  • Vrethwate heade al. the hight 1578 Cocker
  • Hurthwaite Heads 1790 PR

Etymology

is hurthwayte heed 1570ExchKR , Vrethwate heade al. the hight 1578Cocker , Hurthwaite Heads 1790 PR . The forms are too late for definite interpretation , but the name may originally have been ' Úri 's þveit . '