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.

The Leete

Other OS name in the Parish of Writtle

Historical Forms

  • the Leete 1585 EASxix

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is the Leete 1585 EAS xix . OE  (ge )lǣt , ' watercourse, aqueduct,canal , ' found in OE  wæter -gelǣt . The stream connecting the several ponds at Writtle . Cf. Leat PN D 172 .