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Place-names related to local areas:
Tory Log Cloughlog (n.)
1398, of unknown origin. O.N. had lag "felled tree" (from stem of liggja "to lie"), but on phonological grounds etymologists deny that this is the root of Eng. log. Instead, they suggest an independent formation meant to "express the notion of something massive by a word of appropriate sound."
Tory
1566, "an outlaw," specifically "a robber," from Ir. toruighe "plunderer," originally "pursuer, searcher," from O.Ir. toirighim "I pursue," related to toracht "pursuit." About 1646, it emerged as a derogatory term for Irish Catholics dispossessed of their land (some of whom subsequently turned to outlawry); c.1680 applied by Exclusioners to supporters of the Catholic Duke of York (later James II) in his succession to the throne of England. After 1689, Tory was the name of a British political party at first composed of Yorkist Tories of 1680. Superseded c.1830 by Conservative, though it continues to be used colloquially. In American history, Tory was the name given after 1769 to colonists who remained loyal to George III of England
Yard = AS guarded place or girded mound
Wy = W water
Mawr = W great
Fir = G men
Burna = OE intermittent streamBroc = OE slow moving stream with muddy ill-defined banks
Bel = G mouth or entrance
Bel = C baal
Baal = C Celtic god originates from Canaanite god of mountains - usully refers to a site near megalithic remains
Fir = G men
Garth = N (borrowed from C) guarded enclosure or farm on promontory or hill
Gart = C enclosed corn-land
Og = Cyoung oak
Bre = C hill
Pen = C hill
Baile = G farm or village
Egles = L as in eccles
Lawnd = C open space in woodland
Burn = OE fresh water
Colne = C or pre-celtic - unknown
Cas = C castle
Marl = C chalky clay
Tibber = C Anglicised 'tiobar' well Tiobhar=C boiling or turgid water
Roid = C bog myrtle
Hay = AS place surrounded by a hedge
Heyn used as a prefix in at least 1240
Lad = N pile or heap
Kill + Cill = G cell, burial ground, church
Sough = water leat ie for a mill used in 1784
Wahl = C
Holme = S borrowed from C holmr for strip of land by river, wet land
Calder = C cwl-dwr rough water
Keld = N spring
Wy = C water
Thar = C over or beyond
Coombe = G from kum - valley
Staer = Old Irish with Latin derivation - history
Earrh = G spring in a village
Isle = G lower, lowest
Lobh = G rot
Mal = G shingle
M'al = G Mol = G rent or tribute
Mire = G frolic, playing, possibly raging
Torradh = heaping up or burial
Bar = Byer = AS cow house
Barley = AS beorh-leah clearing near projecting hight
Barrow = AS mound, hill, grove etc
Hough = AS wooded valley by side of river
Booth = N forest dwellings for herdsmen - farm
Burna = AS stream
Brun = AS brown
Burn = AS stream or well
Bury = AS fortified place
By = N suffix for farm, village, town
Caster = from L caester city, walled town, camp
Clough = AS deep valley, stream formed ravine
Cop = Coppy AS summit
Croft = AS field
Dene = Denu AS deep wooded valley through which stream flows
Dwfr =Dwr=Dur=Dour=Der = W G C water
Dyke = AS ditch
Dyne = AS slope
Earby = C earr for spring and by for village or N Ewri's village
Edge = AS boundary or hill, watershed, ridge
Field = AS clearing or plain
Gate = N track or way
Gill = N steep valley of the stream
Hag = hAGA=hOG=hAUGH as HEDGE, WOOD, JUNCTION OF TWO MANORS,low lying meadows betwen two hills
Ham = S Homestead
Hameldon = possibly Fort or enclosure of Hamela or Hamala
Haw = N hill
How = N hill
Hurst = AS ornamental plantation or wood - hill
Ing = AS son ie, clan as suffix
Ing = N meadow as suffix
Kirk = N church
Laithe = N barn or outbuilding
Hlaw = Law = N hill or rising ground
Lea = AS field, open space
Laith = Scandinavian Barn or granary
Marsden = boundary valley or valley of Marculf or place in the valley for practising marksmanship or valley of the monument
Mere = AS mercels - boundary
Mere = AS swamp
Moor = AS Moss = AS bog or swamp
Nab = N nabbr projecting peak
Nether = S lower
Raven = N 'of Hrafn'
Ridge = AS back
Rigg = AS a back
Royd = AS clear up - clearing
Sab = AS spruce
Scale = N house
Scare = N rock
Set = AS seat or settlement
Shaw = AS wood or shady place
Slack = N slope on mountain edge, depression on hillside,
Stee = N path
Sty = N path
Thorp/e = N hamlet or village
Ton = dweling, village, homestead
Twist = Twixt = AS boundary
Widdop = AS wide secluded valley (wid-hop)
Wistle = AS junction of two manors
Wiswell = C river of water spring
Worth = AS farm, estate protected enclosure surrounded by water
Awen = C inspiration
Mor = OE marsh or wasteland
Maerels = C mooring rope
Glen = C clearing or valley
Bog = C bogachs = soft
Udd = Brythonic C for great
Druim = ridge
Eadbard = C Edward
Maw = irish card game from 16th c
Maw = ME from OE Maga= Stomach or figuratively a yawning chasm
Maelecan = OI double diminutive for the 'shaved ones' possibly applied to monks
Mare from OE Maere = goblin
Mer = C to rub away or harm
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