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.
Survey of English place-names
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Lake Fm
Lake Fm
Other OS name in the Parish of Sheepwash
Historical Forms
la Lake
1266
DA
Etymology
is
la
Lake
1266 DA 41 . ' The stream , ' v.
lacu
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Gortleigh
Swaddicott
Other OS name
Down Fm
Gregory's Bridge
South Hill
Wooda
Upcott Barton
Major Settlement
Sheepwash