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.

West Bent

Other OS name in the Parish of Selston

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf . The Bent c. 1840TA , from OE  beonet , ' bent grass . '

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Early-attested site