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.

Lothwaite

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wythop

Historical Forms

  • Loftweic, Loftwic 1195 FF

Etymology

The first element here is clearly ON  lopt, 'loft.' The second may possibly be þveit, but the document of 1195 is an original Final Concord, in a hand which distinguishes between c and t .

Places in the same Parish