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Chapel Stile

Other OS name in the Parish of Ecclesfield

Historical Forms

  • scalarium de Mitthop c.1280 YDv,70

Etymology

, possibly equivalent to scalarium de Mitthop c. 1280 YD v, 70 ; v. prec. , stigel ' a stile, a steep ascent ' ; Lat  scalarium is ' a staircase ' or the like ; for the sense cf. stǣger in YW p. ns . ( Stairfoot 2911infra , etc . ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name