Storth Lane

 

A Restricted Byway from Tinker Brook, Wharncliffe Side to Brightholmlee which was probably part of the main route to and from Sheffield which was replaced by the turnpike road which is now the A 6102. The track appears ancient, but subsequently became a cart road with a well surfaced stone base - so it must have been an important route. The name sounds old and is often understood as 

a place-name with an element of Old Norse origin, generally meaning a “Wooded place”. There are plenty of trees and the road is low enough in the River Don valley to have been wooded. Most ancient routes kept to the high ground where the terrain was easier to manage.  Another explanation for the name comes from the “Celtic” (Scottish Gaelic) srath, meaning ‘lower part of a valley’. NB

 srath is normally Anglicised to strath and over time becomes storth. Both explanations show that the name likely derived from the topography of this lane.