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.

Kingshead Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Kniveton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. Kingeswod (e ), Kyngeswod (e )1258, 1260, 1262 ib, 1375RadCh ; the wood was partly in Offcote and Underwood parish , the former being held by the King 1086 DB .