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.

North Gare Breakwater, North Gare Sands

Other OS name in the Parish of Stranton

Historical Forms

  • Northumberland Glossary 1893 OED

Etymology

, v. ModE  dial gair ' a triangularpiece of land ' , also ' an irregular strip of green turf running down the side of a moorland hill ' , Northumberland Glossary 1893 (OED) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement