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.

Downford Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Lapley cum Wheaton Aston

Historical Forms

  • Darnford 1838 TA

Etymology

, Darnford 1838TA ' the hidden ford ' , i.e. overgrown with vegetation or the like , v. derne , ford .