Magott
Field in the Parish of Oadby
Historical Forms
- Magott 1806 Map 1467×84 LTD
Etymology
Magott (sic) 1467 × 84 (this may be an incompletely - copied ecclesiastical register form (having lost hill ?) and prob. represents magotte' a grub, a maggot' rather than either Magg-ot, a diminutive of Magge, a pet - form of Margaret or a reduced maggot-pie' a magpie'; for the peasant, maggots such as the red maggot, the larva of the wheat - midge which seriously damaged ripening ears of corn and were therefore important, may well have given rise to a locational name; v. the following f.n.)
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Albion St
- Black Dog
- Blackthorn Lane
- Brocks Hill
- Brocks Hill Fm
- Brookside Fm
- Church St
- Cottage Fm
- The Elms
- Flat Spinney
- Fludes Lane
- Fox
- Galtree Spinney
- Gartree Ho
- Gartree Road
- Glebe Fm
- Glen Hill Fm
- Glen Rd
- Gorse Lane
- Half Moon Spinney
- The Green
- Harborough Rd
- High Croft
- High St
- Hill Top Fm
- Kettlesborough
- Knighton Grange
- Knighton Grange Rd
- Leicester Race Course
- Leicester Rd
- London Rd
- Manor Fm
- Manor Rd
- Model Fm
- New Inn
- New St
- Oadby Frith
- Oadby Grange, Oadby Grange Fm
- Oadby Hill Ho
- Oadby Lodge Fm, Oadby Lodge
- The Oaks Fm
- The Pantiles
- Ringer's Spinney
- St Peter's Church
- Shady Lane
- Stackyard Spinney
- Stoughton Grange Fm, Grange Fm
- Stoughton Rd
- Wash Brook
- White Horse
- Wigston Rd
- Woodside Fm