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Whin Houses

Other OS name in the Parish of Sedgefield

Historical Forms

  • Whinney Hose Lands 17th Salvin
  • Whinhouse Lands 1757 ib
  • Embleton Whin-houses where the wild and uncultivated boundary of the estate has formerly lain in open pasture with Butterwick Moors 1823 SurteesIII53
  • Whinhouse Farm Homestead 1838 TA

Etymology

, Whinney Hose Lands 17thSalvin , Whinhouse Lands 1757ib , Embleton Whin-houses where the wild and uncultivated boundary of the estate has formerly lain in open pasture with Butterwick Moors 1823 Surtees III53, Whinhouse Farm Homestead 1838TA , v. whin ' gorse ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site