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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.

Bank Dole

Other OS name in the Parish of Pontefract

Historical Forms

  • Bankedale 1675 Comm53

Etymology

, 1844TA , Bankedale 1675Comm 53 , v. banke , dāl ' share of the common land ' .