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.

Loversall

Major Settlement in the Parish of Doncaster

Historical Forms

  • Loureshale, Luureshale, Geureshale 1086 DB
  • Luuresale 1196–1201 YChviii
  • Luuereshal(e), Luvereshal(e) 1202–8,1231,1241 FF 1243 Fees 1246 Ass39d
  • Liureshal 1198 P
  • Luuersal(e), Luversal(e) e.13 RegAlbii,64b 13 ADv 1235 FF
  • Luvershal 1219 FF
  • Liveressall, Liversal 1234 FF
  • Lyvereshale 1251 Ass
  • Louersal(e), Loversal(e) 1276 RH 1279 YI 1285 KI 1297 LS 1488 FF
  • Loversall(e) 1285 KI 1303 KF 1546 YChant
  • Lovershall 1316 Vill
  • Louershale 1323 MinAcct
  • Leversall 1435 Pat
  • Loversaull 1521 Testvi

Etymology

'Lēofhere's nook of land', from the OE  pers.n. Lēofhere and halh.The various forms Liv -, Lev - and Lov -, Luv - arise through the stress- shifting from one to the other element of the OE  diphthong in Lēof -.On the DB spelling Geures - for Leures - cf. Zachrisson, ANInfl 66n.