Lashford Lane
Early-attested site in the Parish of Bessels Leigh
Historical Forms
- (on) læcesford 956 BCS932 c.1240 KCD1283 985 c.1240
Etymology
Lashford Lane, (on ) læcesford 956 (c. 1240) BCS 932, 985 (c. 1240) KCD 1283 (evidently where the road crosses Sandford Brook, v. Pt 3), Lachford 1841TA , v. ford . The first el. might be either lǣce 2 'leech', or lǣce 1 'physician', the latter perhaps used as a by-name.v. also læc(c), læce 'stream, bog'. Professor Löfvenberg observes that læce is likely to have been a masc. noun, so that it is a possible first el. here. Lashford Lane crosses Sandford Brook just before it flows into a marshy valley, and this feature could have been called læce .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Parsonage Moor
- Triangle Plantation
- Bessels Leigh Common, Bessels Leigh Manor and Bessels Leigh Fm
- Little Bradley
- The Drive
- Frog Hall
- Great Park Fm
- Greyhound P.H.
- Hull's Copse
- Long's Fm
- New Copse
- New Plantation
- Old Fishpond Copse
- The Plantation
- Row Leigh Fm and Row Leigh Lane