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.

Laughern

Early-attested site in the Parish of St Johns in Bedwardine

Historical Forms

  • æt Lawern 963 BCS1108 11th
  • Laure 1086 DB
  • Lawerne c.1086 EveA&B 1190
  • La Warne 1255 Ass

Etymology

This was a settlement on Laughern Brook (v. supra 12) named from it. In that settlement there developed various manors including