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.

Lightbank

Other OS name in the Parish of Kildwick

Historical Forms

  • Lythbanck 1647 PRAdd
  • Lightebancke 1655 Skp

Etymology

, 1846TA , Lythbanck 1647 PRAdd,Lightebancke 1655Skp 25 , v. leoht , banke , and cf. Lightcliffe iii, 80supra for a similar compound .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name