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.

The Calf

Other OS name in the Parish of Sedbergh

Etymology

, 1817 M , v. calf ' calf ' in some transferred sense , perhaps ' asmaller stone near a larger one ' ( cf. Cow and Calf iv, 214supra ) ; it is on the county boundary .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement