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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.

Lug Trout Lane

Early-attested site in the Parish of Solihull

Etymology

Lug Trout Lane (6″). Cf. mess , voc. Lugtrought 1609LRMB , Luggtroute 1615 ParReg, Lugtrout lane , p 'cell of land called Lugtrout 1650ParlSurv . As this does not lead up from any stream along which a fisherman might be thought to have hauled his catch, the probability is that the messuage, etc. took their name from some man called Lugtrout , the original holder of the name being perhaps a successful fisherman.