Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Lygrame Feilde 1588 WYD

• Laggrames 1650 PRBfd

• Lagrams 1684 BfdSt

• Lathgryme 1468 FGr

Etymology

Legrams Lane, 1771, 1817 M, Lygrame Feilde 1588 WYD, Laggrames 1650 PRBfd, Lagrams 1684 BfdSt 291, possibly also Lathgryme 1468FGr k.3. Although the material is late, there can be little doubt that this is a fairly common p.n. type, which occurs also in Littillathegryme ii, 262, Laith Grime ii, 271, Laithegryme iii, 96supra , Legram Hall (Marton) pt. v, Legrems Laith (Airton) pt. vi infra . Ekwall La 142 notes Leagram and other examples in La and We, and suggests that they are compounds of ON  leið 'road, track' and ON  gríma1 'a mark or blaze on a tree', the compound signifying 'track indicator', cf. Ekwall, Studier tillägnade Axel Kock (1929), 218; for the forms v. Phonol. § 11.