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.

Oldearth

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Lonsdale

Historical Forms

  • Ould-earth 1610 PR(K)

Etymology

, 1773 Kend iii, 138 , Ould-earth 1610 PR(K) , ' old land ' , v. ald , eorðe , cf. Old Earth (i, 32supra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site