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.

London Rd

Other OS name in the Parish of Great Budworth

Historical Forms

  • le Grenegate l13 LRODx

Etymology

, the line of a Roman road , called le Grenegate l13LRO Dx , ' greenroad ' , from grēne 1 and gata , v. 143 X , cf. le Sale (lyde )yate infra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site