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.

Goose Hall

Early-attested site in the Parish of Landbeach

Etymology

Goose Hall (6″). “Goose-hall, or, as it is in the maps, Goose-house …was so named from a practice which, since the introduction of railways, has entirely ceased. For previously large numbers of geese were wont to be driven periodically along the highway from the northern part of the Isle of Ely to London, and here, next after Ely, they rested during the night” (1869 Milton 26).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement