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.

Bollamgate

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen

Historical Forms

  • Bollow holme 1687 ManR
  • litle Boleham, Great Bolloholme 1693 ib
  • Bolan 1672 NWm

Etymology

, Bollow holme 1687ManR , litle Boleham , Great Bolloholme 1693 ib , cf. Bollum Lane , Bollam 1859OS , probably named from the family of Hugh Bolan 1672 NWm 52 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site