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.

Greaves

Other OS name in the Parish of Bolton by Bowland

Historical Forms

  • Greaues 1706 PRBlt

Etymology

, Greaues 1706 PRBlt , v. grǣfe ' copse ' ( or a surname formed from it ) .