Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Greues c.1235 Chol 1288 ChFor

• Greves 1284 Ipm 1380 Eyre

• Greves iuxta Shotewyk 1333 Plea

• Greves in Wirhale 1333 Blun

• Greves in Podyngton 1356 BPR

• boscus del Greues 1347,1357 ChFor

• foresta de Greues 1358 ChRR

• le Greue iuxta le bonk 1359 ChFor

• le Greue 1386 Plea 1438 ChRR

Etymology

Greves (lost), Greues c.1235Chol (p), 1288ChFor , Greves 1284 Ipm (p)et freq with variant spellings le (s ) Greues , le (s ) Greves , le (s ) Grevhes , le (s ) Greuys , le (s ) Greyves , (la ) Greues , (la ) Greves , (la ) Grevhes , (la ) Greuys , (la ) Greyves to 1380Eyre , Greves iuxta Shotewyk 1333 Plea, Greves in Wirhale 1333Blun , Greves in Podyngton 1356 BPR, boscus del Greues 1347, 1357ChFor , foresta de Greues 1358 ChRR, le Greue iuxta le bonk 1359ChFor , le Greue (lit. Grene ) 1386 Plea, 1438 ChRR (p), 'the groves', v. grǣfe . It seems to have been a district of Puddington, and it gives rise to the surname de (l ) Greves of a family living at Greves in Puddington 1356 BPR iii226. le Greue iuxta le bonk , 'the wood next to the bank' (v. banke ) may be connected with the f.n. Copgrave infra , Copgraves 213supra (v. copp ).