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.

Idle Moor

Other OS name in the Parish of Calverley

Historical Forms

  • Idlawe More, the Overmore 1585 Surv

Etymology

, 1809EnclA 106 , Idlawe More , the Overmore 1585 Surv , v. mōr .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement