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Survey of English Place-Names

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Whipperstone Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Arncliffe

Historical Forms

  • Whipin stone hill 1844 TA

Etymology

, Whipin stone hill 1844TA , probably ' a stonewhere offenders were whipped ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site