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.

Lightbirch

Field in the Parish of Taxal

Historical Forms

  • 1844 TA

Etymology

Lightbirch 1702('pale birch-tree', probably'silver birch', v. lēoht, birce, cf.Birch Db 60)