High & Low Slakes
Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Thore
Historical Forms
- Slake colt stable 1704 Hothf
- Slakes 1796,1806 PR
- Henry slakes, Tuer slakes 1840 TA
Etymology
, Slake colt stable 1704Hothf , Slakes 1796,1806 PR, Henry slakes , Tuer slakes 1840TA , the surn . Tuer , NCy dial . slake ' mud ' , hence ' muddy place ' , which is apparently related to OE *slīc , ME sliche ' mud ' ( cf. EPN ii, 129 s.v. slicu ) , but the oldest form of Slakes (ii, 198infra ) , shows that it could be an old NCy form of slakki ' hollow ' .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- High Moor
- Kirkby Thore Bridge & Hall
- Low Abbey
- Lowmoor Row
- Maiden Castle(lost)
- Priest Lane
- St Michael's Church
- Sleastonhow
- Spitals
- Stamp Hill
- Street Ho
- Town End & Head
- Blea Crag
- Burney Hill
- Currick
- Dunfell Hush & Mine
- Grange Moor
- Green Castle
- Green Pot
- Gullom Holme
- Gullom Holme Bridge
- Hanging Shaw
- Hard Hill
- Henrake Hush
- High Slack
- Hush
- Henrake Hush
- Iron Howe
- Keld Well, Keldwell Sike
- Kirk Ho
- Lord's Seat
- Marblescar Well
- Middle Tongue
- Milburn Beck, Fell, Forest, & Grange(lost)
- Mill Lane & Pond
- Mudgill Sike
- Reasley Moor
- Red Carle
- Thrushgill
- Underwood
- Windy Hall
- Birk Sike
- Eden Bridge
- Houtsay
- Millrigg Bridge
- The Moss
- Skygarth
- Ashton Lea
- Bowrang Plant
- Brackenbrough
- Bridge End
- Burwens
- Copping Hill
- Fits Well
- Keld Sike
- The Buildings
- Crowdundle Beck & Head
- Dun Fell
- Eller Gill
- Greatdale
- Swinethwaite Plant