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.

y e folk pittes

Field in the Parish of Fotherby

Historical Forms

y e folk pittes 1697 DCLeases

Etymology

y e folk pittes 1697(alluding to pits of some kind to which the wholecommunity had access, v. folc, pytt)

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Fotherby