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.

Ramsley Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Melbourne

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , 1597 Lanc , 1612Deed , cf. Roumsley 1415DuLaMB , Ramesley 1482DuLa , Rounesley 1483MinAcct , Romsley 1522DuLa , Ramesley 1599Lanc , probably ' raven's meadow ' , v. hræfn , lēah , though the first element may be the pers. n. Hræfn or Hrafn .