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.

St Lawrence Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Cheshunt

Historical Forms

  • ferm vocat. St Lawrence 1556 AOMB

Etymology

St Lawrence Fm is ferm vocat. St Lawrence 1556AOMB , on the site of the chapel of St Lawrence, referred to in an undated deed (AD i). Cf. capella Sci Laurencii infra boscum de Wormeley 1535 VE, lands called Seynt Laurence in the Busshe 1541 LP.