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.

Grandford, Grandford Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Audlem, Acton & Wrenbury

Historical Forms

  • Grandford Lane 1831 ib

Etymology

( 110–619465 ) , Grandford Lane 1831 ib . If this is an old name it could be derived from grand ' gravel ' and ford , cf. the nearby Sandford supra . But there is a Gran - form in the spellings of Groueford (e )ley 100supra , and the first el . of Grandford may be grēne 1 .