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.

Blue Scar

Other OS name in the Parish of Arncliffe

Historical Forms

  • the Bleweskarr heade 1579 Skp

Etymology

, the Bleweskarr heade 1579Skp 24 , describing a great tract of limestone outcrops on the hill above Arnberg Scar , v. blēo ' blue ' , sker .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site