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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.

Salterwath

Other OS name in the Parish of Orton

Etymology

, 1667, 1680 PR(CR) , ' salt-dealers' ford ' , v. saltere , vað ; a moorland track from the Roman road ( Road II , i , 19 ) crosses Birk Beck here ; it is not the same ford as Salterwath in Tebay(ii, 53infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement