SOUTHOWRAM: Oure, Overe 1086 – Huunerum 1200 – Uuerune 1243 – Huverum 1260 – Suthouerum 1268 / 1280 – Ouerom 1277 – Sudhouerum 1268, 1280 – Southouerum 1297 – Southourum 1326 – Southaure 1337 – Southawrum 1485 – South Ourom 1379 / 1416, 1503 – Southowrom (e) 1539 – South Orum 1430 – Southourme 1508 – Sothorme 1514 – Sowthowrame & Southowram 1570.
This name like Northowram refers to the two long ridges one of which runs north from the Calder for some 4 to 5 miles and is separated from the second by Shibden Brook. Southowram is the southern ridge and Northowram the northern. The name –owram- means ‘the slopes’, a slope (hill).
BAILIFF BRIDGE: Bailibrigge 1374 - Balybrigge 1427 - Bailleghbrigg 1461 - Ballybridge 1610 - Bellybridge 1678 - Bailey Bridge 1775 - Bayliff Bridge 1817 - Bailiff Bridge 1997 - Bailiff Bridge 1997. Could it be named after 'The Bailiff's Bridge, possibly one to be maintained on the Bailiff's account - even today there are different spellings, with the (e) and without it. One rather amusing answer to why there is an ‘e’ on the end of Bailiffe Bridge School and not on the Bailiff Bridge Post office was that the ‘e’ spelling was too long for the tramcar destination board so it was decided to remove it – sounds nice but unlikely.
HOVE EDGE : Hoof Edge: Edge or Scarp where Hove (Ale - Hoof or ground Ivy) grew. Hill Edge, Hove Edge 1680 - Huff Edge 1783.
LIGHTCLIFFE: Lithclif 1275 - Lythteeclif 1313 - Lyghtclf, Lyghtclyffe, Lyghtcliff 1497 - Lightclyf 1548. Lightcliffe is named (with the spelling ‘Lithclif’ in the Wakefield Manor Court Roll for 3 Edw 1 (1275). Whilst Brighouse (spelt Brigghuses) and Coley (spelt Coldeley) find mention in the same Court Roll, the use of the name Brighouse in that roll being proof that in 1275 there was a wooden bridge over the Calder already in existence. It was replaced by one of stone in the seventeenth century. Lightcliffe means a light or not deep cliff. The actual cliff is situated at the Northeast corner of the Holme House grounds (behind the former Victoria Mills of T.F.Firth Carpets on Victoria Road, Bailiff Bridge) and is clearly defined on the larger O.S. Maps and named ‘Light Cliff’.
