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.

Pickness Hall

Other OS name in the Parish of Silkstone

Historical Forms

  • un meerston in Pickenes, Pickneys, Picknasse 1614 Wharn

Etymology

, un meerston in Pickenes , Pickneys , Picknasse 1614Wharn 22 , probably ' pike headland ' v. pīc 1 ' a pointed hill ' , næss .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site