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Summerscales

settlement · North Yorkshire

Old NorseAI-generated

Summerscales is a Norse name meaning 'summer pasture'. It combines a Norse word for summer with a term for a pasture or shieling.

Word origins

Summer
Old Norsesummer(from sumarr "summer")
scales
Old Norsepasture, shieling(from skáli "hut, shieling, booth, pasture")