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.

Mawsley

Major Settlement in the Parish of Mawsley

Historical Forms

Malesleia 1185 BM 1333 FF

Mallesle(e) 1293 ADiii 1299 Ass 1325 Ipm 1356 FF

Mawesley 1596 FF

Etymology

v. Orlingbury Hundred supra 122 and Wythemail infra 129.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Mawsley Wood