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.

Bottom Light

Field in the Parish of Wistow

Historical Forms

  • 1969 Surv

Etymology

Bottom Light (v. lēoht; here prob. used as a sb. meaning' a light place, a glade clearing')