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.

Lumm

Other OS name in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale

Historical Forms

  • Lumb 1831 ib
  • Lumm 1839 TA

Etymology

, Lumb 1831 ib, Lumm 1839TA , ' deep hollow ' , v. lum(m) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site