Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Poole Worth 1646 Sheaf

• mariscum 1272 Chest

• Grenewarth(e) 1499 Eyre 1500 Orm2

• Le Greneworthe, Greenwarth 1510 ib

• le Grene Wathe 1547 MinAcct 1553 Pat

• the Greenworth c.1554 Whall

Etymology

( lost ) , 1819 Orm2 ii12 , Poole Worth 1646 Sheaf, mariscum 1272 Chest, Grenewarth (e )1499Eyre ,1500 Orm2, Le Greneworthe , Greenwarth 1510 ib, le Grene Wathe 1547MinAcct , 1553 Pat, the Greenworth c.1554 Whall , ' the greenshore-land ' , v. grēne 1 , waroð , a tract of marshland beside the Mersey estuary , swallowed by erosion , extending from Netherpool to Great Stanney and Stanlow , along which lay a causeway con - necting Whitby and the abbey at Stanlow, Orm2 ii12, 400, 421,Chest i xix , 198 .