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.

Horse Course

Other OS name in the Parish of Wheldrake

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Horsmersk (e )13th Font , Horsmerk 1290 ib. , Horsmersc 13thWarter . v. mersc ( with OScand  sk ) .