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.

Castle Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Wakefield

Historical Forms

  • Shanking Castle 1709 WMB

Etymology

, 1849TA , Shanking Castle 1709 WMB , cf. Castlehouse 1710 Tayl , v. castel , hyll , and for Shanking cf. Shonkin 1775 ( Tythe Book ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site