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.

maid landes

Field in the Parish of Blaston

Historical Forms

  • maid landes 1601 Terrier

Etymology

maid landes 1601 (v. land; with mægd, a shortened form of mægden, poss. alluding to a young unmarried woman)