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.

Buttress

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Buttrice 1667 WRC

Etymology

, Buttrice 1667 WRC 395 , ME  butres ' a buttress , the projecting part of a hill resembling a buttress ' , cf. Buttress f.n. 56 supra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name