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.

Winchat Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkheaton

Etymology

, probably from wind-geat ' wind-swept gap ' , here a small valley in the hillside facing north across the main Calder valley .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name