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.

Cutthroat Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Brent Pelham

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is a common name for a narrow lane . The name here however may be a corruption of cutcroft , for it leads to the field called Cut Croft in TA and now known as Cut Croat ( ex inf . School ) .