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.

Reaps

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • (the) Reapes 1577 Ct 1596 HAS 1651 PRHept

Etymology

, (the ) Reapes 1577Ct, 1596 HAS 22, 87, 1651 PRHept , v. Reap Hill ii, 289supra ; here the land was some taken from waste ( HAS 26, 79 ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name