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.

Leycourt

Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Gransden

Historical Forms

Lecote 1227 Ass 1260 Ass

Leycote cum Herdwyke 1286 Ass

Leycote 1539,1544 FF

Etymology

'Cottage(s) by the clearing' v. leah , cot .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Gransden

Early-attested site

Hardwicke