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.

Smithfeld

Field in the Parish of Rothwell

Historical Forms

Smithfeld 1349 Ipm

Smythfeld ' 1465 Dixon

Etymology

Smithfeld 1349, Smythfeld' 1465(v. feld, the first el. is either the occup. n. smið or the derived surn.,cf. foll. f.n.)

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Rothwell