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.

Scar

Other OS name in the Parish of Huddersfield

Historical Forms

  • Scarr 1709 WMB

Etymology

, Scarr 1709 WMB , v. sker ' a scar, a rocky bank ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site