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.

Silversides

Other OS name in the Parish of Scawby

Historical Forms

  • locum vocat' silversides close 1671 ib

Etymology

, 1674, 1687, 1695Nelthorpe , locum vocat ' silversides close 1671ib , perhaps ' the hill sidewhere silver plants grow ' , v. seolfor , sīde .