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.

Dam Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Shirland and Higham

Historical Forms

  • Peverel 1155 P

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. le Horsdam 1308,1323 Ipm , Peuereldom 1323Extent , v. hors , dammr ; Higham appears under the land of William Peverel in 1155 P .