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.

Lough

Other OS name in the Parish of Plumpton Wall

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is “ ( house called ) The Lough , from a small lake , as it seemeth , just before it ” ( NB ii , 421 ) .