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.

Giants Graves

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen

Etymology

, the name of a group of pillow - mounds at grid 90 – 778044 ; these and similar groups of mounds , usually associated with ancient settlement sites , are discussed in RCHM xxxv ; they occur under the same name in Waitby , Ravenstonedale and Bampton ( ii , 25 , 35 , 195 infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site