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.

Moorend

Other OS name in the Parish of Thursby

Historical Forms

  • Thursbymorend 1507 Orton

Etymology

is Thursbymorend 1507Orton . Cf. la More 1279Ass (p) , Mora de Thoresby 1285For (p) . v. mōr .