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.

Leign

Other OS name in the Parish of Moretonhampstead

Historical Forms

  • Layne 1571,1582 SR

Etymology

is Layne 1571, 1582SR and is probably of the same origin as Leighon supra 483 .