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.

Grafton Flyford

Major Settlement in the Parish of Grafton Flyford

Historical Forms

  • Graftun 884 BCS552 18th BCS1282 972 c.1050
  • Fleferð 956 BCS937 11th BCS1282 972 c.1050
  • Flæferð 972 BCS1282 c.1050
  • Garstune 1086 DB
  • Grafton(a) c.1086 EveA&B c.1190
  • Grafton(a) Ebraudi c.1150 Surv
  • Grafton(a) juxta Flavell 1285 FF
  • Grafton(a) sub Fleuarth 1317 FF
  • Grafton(a) souz Flavell 1350 LyttCh
  • Grafton(a) Flevarth 1397 Pat
  • Grafton(a) Flevorell 1400 IpmR
  • Grafton(a) Flevord 1439 IpmR
  • Grafton(a) Fleford 1509–38 LP 1550 Pat

Etymology

'Grove-farm,' v. graf , tun , an apt enough name in this locus silvaticus (v. supra 199 for this and for the suffixed Flyford ).This place, like Flyford Flavell, seems to have had two names, an English and an earlier Celtic one. The Ebraudus of the Survey cannot be identified.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site