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.

Hulme

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • the Holme (by the Waterside) 1641,1655 HAS

Etymology

, the Holme (by the Waterside )1641, 1655 HAS , v. holmr ' water-meadow ' ; the modern form is from ODan  hulm .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name