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.

Ringlands

Other OS name in the Parish of Warter

Historical Forms

  • Wrangland 12th Warter

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Wrangland 12thWarter . ' Crooked land , ' v. wrang , land . The OE vowel has been lengthened to ā which becomes dialect [ iə ] .