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.

Sourber Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Gargrave

Historical Forms

  • Sowerber pasture 1843 TA

Etymology

, Sowerber pasture 1843TA , ' sour hill ' , v. sūr , beorg .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site