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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.

Lofty Green

Other OS name in the Parish of High Easter

Etymology

[ lʌfti ] is Louetye 1351–66,Luuetye 1377Ct . Probably ' enclosure of Lufa or Lufu (f) , ' v. teag and cf. Lovedown supra 187 .