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.

Kirk Sink

Other OS name in the Parish of Gargrave

Etymology

, 1812 Whit 176 , who recalls a tradition that ' some greatecclesiastical edifice had there been swallowed up ' , an antiquarian invention to account for the remains of a Roman villa here .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site