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.

Stone Circle

Other OS name in the Parish of Shap

Historical Forms

  • Stone Heaps 1727 Defoe 1777 M

Etymology

, Stone Heaps 1727 Defoe, 1777 M , v. stān , hēap , the remains of the stone circle referred to in Shap (ii, 164supra ) ; cf. NB 477 and RCHM 206 ; it is at grid 83 – 567133 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement