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.

Birken Bank & Birken Holes, Birk Moss

Other OS name in the Parish of Almondbury

Etymology

, 1843 O.S. , v. bircen ' birch ' , mos ' swamp ' Blacker Edge , 1843 O.S. v. blæc , kjarr ' marsh ' , ecg , cf. Blacker i, 292supra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name