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.

Rye Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Sezincote

Historical Forms

  • Greate Rye, Rye meadow 1692 GR536

Etymology

, 1830 M , Greate Rye , Rye meadow 1692GR 536 , probably ME  atter eye ' at the water - meadow ( v. ēg ) ; it lies on land in the angle formed by the confluence of two streams .