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Survey of English Place-Names

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Skell Holmes Top

Other OS name in the Parish of Long Preston

Historical Forms

  • Skell holmes 1841 TA

Etymology

, Skell holmes 1841TA ; Skell may well be an old name of Hellifield Beck which is a rapidly descending stream , v. skjallr ' resounding ' , holmr ' water-meadow ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site