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.
Survey of English place-names
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Bank Ho
Bank Ho
Other OS name in the Parish of Whicham
Historical Forms
the bankhouse
1656
ib
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
the
bankhouse
1656 ib .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
Whicham Hall
Whicham Mill
Baldmire
Baystone Bank Fm
Beckside
Chappels Fm
Cross Bank
Fell Brow
Fore Slack
Gate Side
Grice Croft
Hallbeck
Hill End
Keldbank
Millhaw Wood
Mire Mouth
Parsonage Breast
Sledbank
Southfield
Townend Knotts
White Hall Knott
Early-attested site
Croftbathoc
Hellpool Bridge
Kirkbank
Satherton
Silecroft
Whole Pippin
Major Settlement
Whicham