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.

Lent

Early-attested site in the Parish of Taplow

Historical Forms

  • atte Lenthe 1340 NI
  • atte Liente 1341 ADi
  • atte Lente 1342 Pat

Etymology

Professor Ekwall suggests that this is from OE  hlēonaþ , 'shelter,' and for the change of final Þ to t compares the history of Frant (Sx), earlier Fernthe .