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.

Weeland

Other OS name in the Parish of Pontefract

Historical Forms

  • Wealand 1694 PRClt

Etymology

, 1607 Hnt , Wealand 1694 PRClt , v. hwēol , land , denoting land enclosed in a turn of the Aire .