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.

Quarry Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Ripon

Historical Forms

  • querruram de plaster vocatam Sparre stone 1481 RipAct

Etymology

, 1817 M , named from querruram de plaster vocatam Sparre stone 1481RipAct , v. quarriere , OE  spærstān ' gypsum ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site