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.

Waterscale

Other OS name in the Parish of Bentham

Etymology

, 1379 PT (p) , 1609 FF , ' shieling near the water ' , v. wæter , skáli : it is by the R . Wenning .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement