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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Sands Closes
Sands Closes
Other OS name in the Parish of Whitehaven
Historical Forms
Sands Close
1713
ib
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Sands
Close
1713 ib .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Arrowthwaite
Bransty Road, Row and Station
Corkickle
Harras
Hothwait
Howgill
Priestgill
Yew Bank
Other OS name
Aikbank
Bearmouth
Saltom Pit
Scilly Bank
Tom Hurd Rock
White Park
Major Settlement
Whitehaven