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.

Greenacre Cl

Field in the Parish of Rearsby

Historical Forms

  • 1968 Surv 1846 White 1863 White 1877 White

Etymology

Greenacre Cl 1846, 1863, 1877 White (v. grēne 1, æcer; Greenacre was not a 19th cent. Leics. surn.)