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.

Crosses

Field in the Parish of Wem

Historical Forms

  • 1845 TA

Etymology

Crosses(by Prees road:Garbet says this was a common field “named from a cross erected on that road”)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name