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.

Lipper

Early-attested site in the Parish of Kenn

Historical Forms

  • Higher Lipper 1792 Recov
  • atte Lipe 1330 SR
  • atte Lype 1333 SR

Etymology

v. hlype and for the final er , v. Introd. xxxvi.