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.

Bateman's Tomb

Other OS name in the Parish of Middleton and Smerrill

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , the burial - place of Thomas Bateman , who died in 1861 , and of his wife . He directed that his body should be interred in unconsecrated ground .