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.

The Clives

Other OS name in the Parish of Weston Underwood

Historical Forms

  • Cleves 1596 DuLa
  • Clivis 1767 Burdett

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , Cleves 1596DuLa , Clivis 1767 Burdett , probably ' the cliffs ' , v. clif .