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.

The Crook

Other OS name in the Parish of Giggleswick

Historical Forms

  • Big Crook 1845 TA

Etymology

, Big Crook 1845TA , v. krókr ' bend, crook ' , here the piece of land in an old ox - bow and now cut off by the R . Ribble in its present course .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name