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.

Cleveland

Other OS name in the Parish of Thornhill

Historical Forms

  • Cleeveland 1792 PRThl

Etymology

, Cleeveland 1792 PRThl , v. clif , land , but it may have been named from Cleveland YN 128 ; the editor of PRThl takes Thomas Bedford Cleeveland as a pers. n. , but Bedford is the surname , common in the parish , and Cleeveland is his place of residence .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement