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.

Spital Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of South Weald

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. le Spytle in Brokestrete 1553 Pat which takes its name from a hospital for lepers .