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.

Lidwell

Early-attested site in the Parish of East and West Dawlish

Etymology

The first element may be the old name of the stream which rises here, v. wielle and cf. Lydford supra 191.