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.

West Grange

Other OS name in the Parish of Messingham

Etymology

, cf. uiam quae venit de … grangiam eorum ( Louth Park Abbey ) Eikescoh (sic)c1140AD ( ' the oak wood ' , a Scand compound of ON  eik and skógr ) , grang ' suis de Messyngham 1535 VE iv ( Thornholme Priory ) , Grangie de Messinghame 1559BPRentals , the graunge 1577–80Terrier , Messingham Grange 1647CCLeases , v. grange ; there were several monastic granges in Messingham .