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.

Sortegrave

Field in the Parish of Mickleover

Historical Forms

Sortegrave 1226 BurtCh

Scortegrave 1226 FF 1226 Burton

Syortegrave 1226 FF 1226 Burton

Etymology

Sortegrave 1226 BurtCh, Scortegrave, Syortegrave 1226 FF, 1226Burton('short copse', v. sc(e)ort, grāf)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Rough Heanor

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Mickleover