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.

Gaudy Ground

Field in the Parish of Pontesbury

Historical Forms

  • 1840 TA

Etymology

Gaudy Ground(refersto growing of dyer's greenweed for a yellow dye, OFr  gaude)