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.

University Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Syston

Historical Forms

  • the University of Oxford have the Impropriation and receive the Tithes 1709 Terrier

Etymology

, alluding to the University of Oxford . Of the living of the parish church with its nine acres of glebe , the University of Oxford have the Impropriation and receive the Tithes 1709Terrier .