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.

Thistle Hall

Other OS name in the Parish of Willoughby Waterleys

Etymology

is a disparaging name for a site just to the east of Main St , v. þistel . No early forms , but this may once have been a name with halh in its sense ' awater meadow ' , since a large mere lies 400 yards to its east ; cf. Straw Hall in Peatling Magna supra .