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.

Liberty Fm, Liberty Plant. & Liberty Goyle

Other OS name in the Parish of Halstock

Historical Forms

  • Liberty 1842 TA

Etymology

( 1799ERO , 1811 OS ) , Liberty 1842TA , probably from the abstract noun liberty , one of the series of arbitrary names in this par . bestowed by Thomas Hollis , v. note under f. ns . infra and v. goyle ' ravine ' ; however the name may alternatively refer to the liberty of Halstock , v. under Yetminster hundred supra .