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.

Woomber Beck & Woomber Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Skipton

Historical Forms

  • Walmber 1842 TA

Etymology

, Walmber 1842TA , possibly from an OE *walm , an unmutated form of welm ' spring ' ( cf. ON ólmr 'rage' ) , beorg .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name