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.

Oldham Fd

Field in the Parish of Taxal

Historical Forms

  • 1844 TA

Etymology

Oldham Fd(perhaps'old marsh', from aldandhulm, as in Oldham La 50, but the basis may be the surname derived fromit)