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.

Appollo Lodge

Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Grimsby

Historical Forms

  • Appollo Lodge c.1820 GrimsMap
  • Appollo lodge 1842 White

Etymology

Appollo Lodge (lost), Appollo Lodge c.1820GrimsMap , Appollo lodge 1842 White; it was situated between the earlier Lower and Upper Burgess St., north of the “New Market Place”. Dr Rod Ambler points out that in the 1851 Census of Religious Worship this was a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and had earlier been a Masonic Hall.