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.

Monk Wall

Other OS name in the Parish of Ripon

Etymology

, part of the boundary wall between the estates of Fountains Abbey and the Forest of Knaresborough , mentioned in 1540 Fount , 1576 Wheater , 1767 Comm .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site