English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Green Tail

Field in the Parish of Marsh Chapel

Historical Forms

  • 1821 AH 1839 TA 1839 TA

Etymology

Green Tail 1821, 1839(named from the family of Thomas Evison 1819; presumably Green Taildenotes a narrow strip of grassland, v. tægl)