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.

The Scope

Other OS name in the Parish of Almondbury

Etymology

, 1843 O.S. , perhaps representing a local pronunciation of dial . scalp ( YW scaup , scope ) ' a bare dry piece of stony ground , thin soil barely covering the rock beneath ' ( EDD ) , cf . The Scalp 23 , Kellingley Scalp56supra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name