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.

Littleworth

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wing

Historical Forms

  • Litlengeworth 1227 Ass

Etymology

'Enclosure of Lytel's people,' OE  Lytelinga -worþ . The same patronymic form is found in Lillingstone supra , Litlington (C), Littleton (Mx) and Lidlington (Beds). This name Lytel (a ) is probably a diminutive of those names in Lut - noted under Ludgershall infra . v. worþ .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement