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.

Whinney Moor

Other OS name in the Parish of Ordsall

Historical Forms

  • le Whynnye more 1460 Ct

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is le Whynnye more 1460Ct , i.e. covered with whin or gorse . v. infra 293 .

Places in the same Parish