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.

River Skerne

Other OS name in the Parish of Sedgefield

Historical Forms

  • “the dreary morasses of the Skerne” 1823 SurteesIII43

Etymology

, “the dreary morasses of the Skerne ”1823 Surtees III43 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site