Chestregreue
Field in the Parish of Bidston
Historical Forms
- Chestregreue 1838 TA 1353 MinAcct
- le Chestergrenemedewe 1357 ChFor
Etymology
Chestregreue(lit. Theftegreue) 1353, le Chestergrenemedewe 1357(there is no evidence for aceaster at Bidston so this must be'meadow at a wood belonging to Chester',v. grǣfe, mǣd, cf. Chester 336 infra. The place is perhaps associated withthe abbot of Chester's unidentified wood in the Forest of Wirral, boscus de Grescow, boscus de Gresowe, boscus de Groscow 1357 ChFor, from ON skógr'a wood',with an unidentified first el. for which Professor Löfvenberg suggests OE grēosn'gravel' or OE grēot'gravel' or perhaps rather ON grjót'gravel,stones')
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Bidston
- Ford, Ford Bridge
- Bidston Moss
- Wooton
- Birkenhead Pool
- Birkenhead Priory
- Claughton
- Grange
- Bridge End
- Flaybrick Hill, Upper Flaybrick Rd
- Gill Brook Basin
- Sharps House Fm
- Slatey Rd
- The Taskar
- Toad Hole
- Lingham
- Moreton
Other OS name
- Bidston Hall
- Bidston Hill
- Bidston Lighthouse
- Fender Bridge, Fender Lane, Fender Lane Fm
- Flaybrick Cottage
- Leasowe Rd, Leasowe Side
- Leyhall
- The Park(lost)
- Upton Rd
- Wallasey Bridge Rd
- Wallasey Pool
- Wallasey Pool Bridge
- Warringtons Bridge(lost)
- Birkenhead Ferry(lost)
- Birkenhead Hall(lost)
- Ivy Rock(lost)
- Monk's Ferry(lost)
- Wallasey Pool
- Wirral Ho(lost)
- Woodside Ferry
- Boundary Rd
- Lingdale Hill
- North Birkenhead(lost)
- Oakfield(lost)
- Oxton Rd
- Bankfield
- Bridge Ho
- Chapel Hill
- Danger Lane
- Fenderlane Fm
- Gorse Lane
- Leasowebank, Leasowe Rd
- Moreton Bridge
- New Fm
- Pasture Fm & Pasture Rd
- Reeds Bridge, Reeds Fm & Reeds Lane
- Sandbrook Lane
- Seabank
- Bridge Cottage
- Carr Fm & Carr Ho, Carr Lane, Carr Lane Fm, Carr Houses
- Fornall Bridge
- Garden Hey Terrace
- Heron Rd
- The Heyes
- Mill Ho
- Puddle Hall(lost)
- Saughall Massie Bridge
- Three Lanes End