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.

upper West Leyes

Field in the Parish of Croxton

Historical Forms

  • upper West Leyes 1651 WillsPCC

Etymology

upper West Leyes 1651 WillsPCC(probably from the pl. of lēah in the later sense of'meadows')

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement