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.

Ephraim Leys

Field in the Parish of Rearsby

Historical Forms

  • 1826 Surv

Etymology

Ephraim Leys 1826 (v. leys; Ephraim is a Hebrew pers. n., poss. used as a surn. here, although there is no record of its presence as a surn. in the East Midlands in the 1881 census)