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.

Button Park

Other OS name in the Parish of Pontefract

Historical Forms

  • le Bothom(e) 1384,1421 MinAcct

Etymology

, probably identical with le Bothom (e )1384, 1421MinAcct 507 , v. botm , boðm ' bottom ' .