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.

on þat litlen lake

Field in the Parish of Compton Abbas

Historical Forms

on þat litlen lake 956 ShaftR

Etymology

on þat litlen lake('the little stream', v. lȳtel, lacu)

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Compton Abbas