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.

Moor Laithe

Other OS name in the Parish of Gisburn

Historical Forms

  • Moor Laith 1744 PRGis

Etymology

, Moor Laith 1744 PRGis , cf. ye Moore Close 1696Glebe , v. mōr , hlaða ' barn ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site