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.

le Grenewelle

Field in the Parish of Stanley

Historical Forms

le Grenewelle 1326 WollCh

Etymology

le Grenewelle 1326('spring at the green', v. grēne2, wælla)

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Stanley