Holme

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Holme, a common place-name, usually from OScand. holmr ‘island, dry ground in marsh, water-meadow’: Holme Cambs. Hulmo 1167. Holme Cumbria. Holme 1086 (DB). Holme N. Yorks. Hulme 1086 (DB). Holme Notts. Holme 1203. Holme Chapel Lancs. Holme 1305. Holme Hale Norfolk. Holm 1086 (DB), Holmhel 1267. Second element is OE halh (dative hale) ‘nook of land’. Holme next the Sea Norfolk. Holm c.1035, 1086 (DB). Holme Pierrepont Notts. Holmo 1086 (DB), Holme Peyrpointe 1571. Manorial affix from the de Perpount family, here in the 14th cent. Holme St Cuthbert Cumbria. Sanct Cuthbert Chappell 1538. Named from the dedication of the chapel. Holme, South N. Yorks. Holme 1086 (DB), Southolme 1301. Holme upon Spalding Moor E. R. Yorks. Holme 1086 (DB), Holm in Spaldingmor 1293. Spalding Moor is an old district-name meaning ‘moor of the people called Spaldingas’, from the tribe who gave their name to Spalding (Lincs.) + OE mōr.

However some examples of Holme have other origins: Holme Kirkl., near Holmfirth. Holne 1086 (DB). ‘(Place at) the holly tree’. OE holegn. Holme, East & Holme, West Dorset. Holne 1086 (DB), Estholn, Westholn 1288. Identical in origin with the previous name. Holme Lacy Herefs. Hamme 1086 (DB), Homme Lacy 1221. OE hamm ‘enclosure, land in a river-bend’. Manorial affix from its possession by the de Laci family from 1086. Holme on the Wolds E. R. Yorks. Hougon 1086 (DB), Holme super Wolde 1578. ‘(Place at) the mounds or hills’. OScand. haugr in a dative plural form haugum. The affix is from OE wald ‘high forest-land’.

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