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.

the Greene

Field in the Parish of Rearsby

Historical Forms

  • the Greene 1679 Terrier
  • the Green 1700 Terrier
  • the Green or Tenters 1703 Terrier 1709 Terrier 1709 Terrier 1712 Terrier
  • the Green Tenters 1745 Terrier

Etymology

the Greene 1679, the Green 1700, the Green or Tenters 1703, 1709, 1709 (18), 1712, the Green Tenters (sic) 1745 (v. grēne 2 and Tenters, infra)