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.

Baswick Steer

Other OS name in the Parish of Brandesburton

Etymology

is so named in 1828 Langd . It was a coal and lime wharf on the river Hull . Steer (Cu, NRY) is used of ' a landing-place ' and is a dialectal form of stæð , as in the local pronunciation of Staithes (PN NRY 139) as [ stiəz ] .