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.

Oxlands

Other OS name in the Parish of Sutton on Hull

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. le Oxpast (o )ur 1280–6,1356–67 Melsa , from OFr  pasture , otherwise first recorded in ME from c. 1386 ( NED s.v . ) .