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.

Church

Other OS name in the Parish of Langton Herring

Etymology

( St Peter ) , cf. ecclesie de Longeton 1393AD , the Rectorye or Parishe churche of Langhton Heringe 1596ib , Cherchyde l12 MontC , Chercheshid 1219 FF , Churchewey 1429Midd , v. cirice , hīd ' a hide ofland ' , weg .