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.

Leaper Bank

Other OS name in the Parish of Ripon

Historical Forms

  • Leperbanke 1533 MinAcct

Etymology

, Leperbanke 1533MinAcct , probably the ME  surname Leper ( cf. Leperdike ii, 134supra ) , banke .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site