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.

Dead - fallow

Field in the Parish of Ullesthorpe

Historical Forms

  • 1843 TA

Etymology

Dead - fallow (v. dēad, falh; presum. alluding to poor ground)