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.

Slack Lake

Field in the Parish of Burton

Historical Forms

  • 1843 TA

Etymology

Slack Lake('slow watercourse', from slack'slow, sluggish', cf. slakki, and lacu)