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.

Spittle Banks

Other OS name in the Parish of Bentham

Historical Forms

  • the Hospital 1778 PR

Etymology

, 1847 TA , named from the Hospital 1778 PR , v. spitel ( here an almshouse founded in 1727 by William Collingwood , cf. PRBnt v ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement