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.

Stairs Bottom, Stairs Hill, Stairs Hole

Other OS name in the Parish of Bradford

Historical Forms

  • (Le) Staires 1613,1619 FF
  • Stairs Hole, Bottom 1817 M

Etymology

, (Le ) Staires 1613, 1619 FF, Stairs Hole , Bottom 1817 M , named from Stairs Dike in Wadsworth 202supra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement