Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Lyme 1312 Ipm

• Lyme in foresta de Macclesfeld 1337 Eyre

• boscus de Lyme 1347 ib

• foresta de Lyme 1357 ChFor 1359 BPR

• manerium et parcum de Lyme 1466 Earw

• Lyme in Hanley c.1527 ib

• mansion house in Lyme 1611 LRMB200

• Lyme Hall & Lyme Park 1831 Bry

• (boscus de) Lym 1354 BPR 1363

• Lime (Hall) 1690 Sheaf 1693 Dow 1724 NotCestr

Etymology

This is the regional name The Lyme 2supra with hall 'a hall', and park 'a park'.