View from Beacon Hill - Stella Carpenter has a book that is available from Wibsey Library entitled Four Walks around Wibsey. One of these walks takes in Beacon Hill and the book is well worth buying - ask at the library.

Monday 12th April 2010 2.00 pm, the Conservative Club, North Road
Terry Sutton — Yesterday's Yorkshire Why do an avenue, a crescent, a drive, a road, a street and a yard all carry the same name, Reevy?

They are named after a locality which dates back to at least the 16th century and probably much earlier. A H Smith in his book, The Place Names of West Yorkshire, published in 1961, gives Revey Nabbe as recorded in 1541. Notice the slightly different spelling which was used interchangeably until standardisation of spelling in the mid-to-late 19th century. Sometimes the name was spelt Ryvey, and even Ryney though that may have been a mis-reading of Ryvey.

Reevy as a locality extends approximately from Wibsey Park Avenue/Farfield Avenue to Blackshaw Beck, a long established township boundary, northwards to the junction of Cooper Lane and Beacon Road, returning to its junction with Wibsey Park Avenue.
Farms in that triangle of land included Reevy Hill Top, Reevy Hill (NB not the same as the previous one), and Reevy Hall farms. Reevy Hall Plantation, adjacent to the township boundary at Cooper Lane, was planted in 1818 and Reevy Hall Colliery was also working at that time. The plantation trees would be destined to provide pit props etc in due course.
But perhaps the most noteworthy place which held the name was Reevy Beacon. This was part of a chain of beacons throughout the land in earlier centuries and was, apparently, lit at the time of the threatened invasion of England by the Spanish Armada. Beacons needed to be on high ground and this could explain the use of the word nabbe, probably from the Norwegian meaning a rocky or projecting hill. The beacon could certainly be seen in Halifax and Huddersfield. In 1638 the constable responsible for `watching' the beacon was paid 26 shillings and 6 pence for his work.