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.

Wallasey Embankment

Other OS name in the Parish of Wallasey

Historical Forms

  • Leasowe Embankment 1842 OS

Etymology

, Leasowe Embankment 1842 OS , a sea - defence protecting Leasowe supra and Bidston Moss and the Wallasey Pool basin , against tidal inundation .