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.

Sturt Coppice

Early-attested site in the Parish of Leigh

Etymology

The first element may be the same as that found in the pers. name Steruthale in Leigh (1275). v. steort . Cf. further Sterteshale in Great Comberton in AOMB 61.