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.

Bell Foot

Other OS name in the Parish of Crosby Ravensworth

Historical Forms

  • Bell 1617 PR

Etymology

, 1728 PR , 1841TA , probably named from the local family of Bell (1617, etc. PRpassim ) , but the first el . and the surname could be from ON  bjalli ' round hill ' ( cf. MardaleIll Bell i, 165supra ) , as the farm is at the foot of a hill ; v. fōt .