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.

Whinfield

Other OS name in the Parish of Skipton

Historical Forms

  • Quynnefel' 1290 Whit

Etymology

, Quynnefel '1290 Whit 379 , ' gorse hill ' , v. hvin , fjall ( denoting the hill to the south of Whinfield ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name