Leigh
Major Settlement in the Parish of Leigh
Historical Forms
- Lega 1228 FF 1372 ChrP
- Leg' 1280 Ass
- Legh(e) 1244,1268 Ass 1270 ChrP 1372 Ass 1288 Pat 1297 FA 1316
- Shirburn' 1324 Pat 1332 SR 1535 VE
- Leye 1281 ChrP 1372 1384
- Leygh(e) 1372 ChrP 1326 Ipm 1327 Cl 1412 FA
- 'Leigh(e) by Shirburn' 1359 Pat 1586 Batten
- Lye 1486 Ipm 1569–74 Map 1576 AddCh
- Lye or Leigh 1765 Tayl
- Lee…in Yetmyster 1558 SRO
- Lyghe 1566 Digby 1568 Gough
- Ligh(e) 1587 1600 Digby 1607 Gough 1671 SalisT
Etymology
From lēah (dat.sg. lēage ) 'wood, woodland clearing', cf. Leigh in Colehill par. 2 137 for another instance of the simplex use of this el. Leigh is some 5 miles S of Sherborne.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alton Mead Lane
- Back Drove
- Bailey Drove
- Black Barn
- Bolter's Drove
- Bound Lane, Bound Lane Fm
- Calfhay Fm
- Calfhay Lane & Calfhay Plant.
- Castle Plant. The Castle
- Church Fm & Church Lane, Cockeram's Plant.
- Crocker's Knap
- Cross Fm
- Drummer's Castle
- Frampton's Fm
- Gudgins's Banks
- King's Arms P.H.
- Load Lane
- Long Bridge (Drove)
- Marsh Fm
- Mill Ponds
- Miz Maze
- Morgan's Drove
- Pount's Barn
- Rookers Fm
- St Andrew's Church
- Seiver's Copse & Seiver's Lane
- Smithy
- Spring Copse
- Springfield
- Totnell Ho, Lr Totnell Fm
- Vicarage
- White Hall
- Wriggle River Lane