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.

Lays Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Wool

Etymology

, cf . The Lays 1839TA , probably ModE dial. lea , ley , lay ' pasture-land, grass-land ' , an elliptical use of the adj . lea , ley , lay from OE  lǣge ' fallow ' .