Cairngreen
Cairngreen KMB S NO400140 1 363 55m NOF
Cairngreen Wood 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn
Cairngreen Quarry 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn
Cairngreen Cottage 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn [this is not Cairngreen KMB, but a small building in Ceres Moor CER]
? Sc cairn + ? Sc green
‘A green or piece of grass-land beside or containing a cairn (heap of stones or burial mound)’? There is no burial mound or similar feature in the area recorded by NMRS.
No settlement is shown at this site on OS 6 inch (1855), though it shows Cairngreen Wood and Cairngreen Quarry, and also Cairngreen Cottage at NO396132 in CER, a building and a name which no longer exist.
OS Pathf. also shows Cairngreen Wood and Cairngreen Quarry.
This place-name appeared in printed volume 2