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.

Height

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • le, the Height c.1543,1618 FGr

Etymology

, 1709 WMB , le , the Height c. 1543, 1618FGr 8 , v. hēhðu ' aheight ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name