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.

Skellands

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Malham

Historical Forms

  • Schellands 1673 ib

Etymology

, 1686 PRMl , 1699Grant 2 , Schellands 1673 ib , probably ( from the topography ) ' lands on a shelving terrain ' , v. scelf , skjalf , land .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site