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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.

Low Leighton

Other OS name in the Parish of New Mills

Etymology

, cf. Lawe Laughen Field 1565 Lanc , Loughton Mills 1643CPG , Loe Laughton 1714DuLa , perhaps from lēac-tūn ' kitchen-garden ' .