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.

Grate

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Historical Forms

  • the Grait 1556 ib
  • the Grate 1730 Hothf

Etymology

, 1836KCR , the Grait 1556 ib 90,the Grate 1730Hothf (W 15) , possibly e. ModE  grate in some such sense as ' hatch across a stream ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name