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.

Flams

Field in the Parish of Wem

Historical Forms

  • 1842 TA

Etymology

Flams(dialect fleam'artificial water channel' is sometimes Flam in Ch, PN Ch 5.1181–2: TAMap showsa straight channel by R. Roden, not shown on later maps)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name