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.

Peaseholme

Other OS name in the Parish of Owersby

Historical Forms

  • peseholme 15 Monson c.1570
  • Pease holme 1608 ib
  • peaseholme 1684 ib
  • Pease holm 1721 ib
  • Pease Holmes 1805 ib

Etymology

, peseholme 15(c.1570) Monson , Pease holme 1608ib , peaseholme 1684ib , Pease holm 1721ib , Pease Holmes 1805ib , cf. peasholme cloose , peasholme headland 1611TLE , Pease holme close 1634Terrier , upper Peaseholme Closes 1822ib , ' the island of land , the higher ground in marshy land where pease grow ' , v. pise , holmr .