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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Sandy Beck
Sandy Beck
Other OS name in the Parish of Whinfell
Historical Forms
Sandiebecke
1693
ib
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Sandiebecke
(a meadow) 1693 ib .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
Whin Fell
Whinfell Hall
Wood Fm
Birk Bank
Brow
Crag End
Cringley Hill
Early-attested site
Bank
Toddell
High
Major Settlement
Whinfell