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.

Old and New Lyveden

Early-attested site in the Parish of Aldwinkle, All Saints and St Peter

Historical Forms

  • Louenden 1175 P
  • Luueden(e) 1178 P 1230 P
  • Lieueden' 1179 P
  • Leueden(e) 1181 P 1285 Ass 1287 For
  • Leyndone 1326 Cl
  • Liveden(e) 1220 Fees
  • Over Liveden, Nether Liveden 1398 Cl
  • Livedenne 1347 Cl
  • Lyvedene Pottere 1285 Ass
  • Pottereslivedene 1312 FF
  • Pottereslyvedene 1344 BM
  • Lifden 1622 Recov
  • Lyvendene 1253 Ass 1255 Seld13 1261 Ass

Etymology

'Leofa 's valley,' v. denu . For Pottereslyveden we may perhaps compare Potterspury supra 105.

Places in the same Parish