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.

Welgrave

Field in the Parish of Repps with Bastwick

Historical Forms

  • Welgrave 1466 Field

Etymology

Welgrave 1466(in South Field; v.wella and græf or grāf, grǣfe and comments on Capgrave, Billockby and BurghSt Margaret supra)

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Major Settlement