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.

Moseley

Early-attested site in the Parish of Grimley

Historical Forms

  • Moseleage, Mosleage 816 BCS357 17th BCS462 851 11th
  • Mossetena gemære 851 BCS462 11th
  • æt Mosleage c.965 BCS1139 11th

Etymology

'Moss or bog-clearing,' v. mos , leah . For Mossetena cf. Broadwas supra 103.

Places in the same Parish