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.

Windley Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Idridgehay and Alton

Historical Forms

  • Wyndley Lane Eliz DuLa

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Wyndley Lane ElizDuLa , cf. Wyndeleylounte 1482MinAcct , v. lúndr . Windley is perhaps a surname here .