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.

Freezywater

Other OS name in the Parish of Enfield

Historical Forms

  • Freezwater 1768 RobinsonEn
  • Freezy Water 1819 G

Etymology

is Freezwater 1768 RobinsonEn, Freezy Water 1819 G , originally the name of a pond here , so nicknamed from its bleak and exposed situation ( Whitaker 172–3 ) .