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.

Lodfin

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bampton

Historical Forms

Lodefenne 1288 Ass 1333 SR

Loddefenne 1317 Ass

Lodfen 1481 IpmR

Etymology

For the first element, v. Ladford supra 108.The second element is OE fenn, 'fen, marshy spot.'

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Bampton