Bell Cross
Other OS name in the Parish of Sprotbrough
Historical Forms
- Bellcross flat(t) 1663,1764 Glebe
- Bell Cross 1847 TA
Etymology
, Bellcross flat (t )1663, 1764Glebe , Bell Cross 1847TA , cf. also Bell Pit , Bell Pool , Bellstring Flatt 1847TA ; ' cross with abell ' , v. belle , cros , but the allusion is obscure ; Bellstring Flatt denotes a meadow the rent of which maintained the church bell - ropes ; this name occurs elsewhere in YW ( cf. f. ns . 39 , 70 , 78 , etc . infra ) .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Cadeby Cliff
- Cadeby Rattles
- Cadeby Riding
- Grey Stones
- Hollow Gate
- Melton Cliff
- Pot Riddings Wood
- Rattles Hill
- Spen Dike
- Black Pond
- Bodles
- Brand Lane, Brandsfield Fm
- Burnt Wood
- Castle Hill
- Crow Wood
- Dillicarr Ho
- Folder Lane
- The Ings
- Mill Hill
- Raven Hill
- Richmond Hill
- St Dominick's Crag
- Scabba Wood
- Spring Dike
- Sprotbrough Hall
- Sprotbrough Ings
- Sprotbrough Park
- Stag Hill
- Stone Cross
- Thorpe Lane
- Toecroft Fm
- Wetlands Wood
- York Bar