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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.

Cliff Rocher

Other OS name in the Parish of Ecclesfield

Etymology

, 1819 Hlm , from clif and OFr  rocher ' a steep rocky bank ' , here denoting the rocky outcrop on the hillside south of R . Loxley near Stannington ; cf. Rocher 226supra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name