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.

Convent or Garlands Fd

Field in the Parish of Rearsby

Historical Forms

  • 1968 Surv

Etymology

Convent or Garlands Fd (poss. a memory of land here which was owned by Leicester Abbey; v. convent, which was not restricted in early usage to female religious communities, and v. Garlands Fd infra)