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Survey of English Place-Names

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Stanfield Ash

Other OS name in the Parish of Tankersley

Historical Forms

  • Stainfield Ash, Standfield Ash 1817 M 1841 TA

Etymology

, Stainfield Ash , Standfield Ash 1817 M, 1841TA , v. stān , feld ; Hunter reports that “ a town to which tradition gives the name of Stanfield is said to have stood on the top of Wharncliffe - Moor ” ( Hrt ii, 330 ) ; the Ash ( v. æsc ) was on the Wortley - Ecclesfield boundary .