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.

St Margaret's Well(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Nettleham

Etymology

( lost ) , this name was given to a spring in the village which was particularly noisy when the water was high and thus referred to locally as ' Roaring Meg', Baker p. 3 . A public house of this name stood on the Nettleham Road in Lincoln until it was demolished a few years ago .