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.

Pole Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of New Mills

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. Armfield Pole , Arnfeelde powle 1640, 1695Map and Robert Armfield 1640 ib ; the family name today is called Arnfield . It was a boundary pole .