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.

High Street

Other OS name in the Parish of Tealby

Historical Forms

  • apud Stratam intra villam de Teelby et Staynton 1375 Peace
  • apud Stratam inter villas de Theuelby et Staynton' 1376 ib

Etymology

, apud Stratam intra villam de Teelby et Staynton 1375 Peace, apud Stratam inter villas de Theuelby et Staynton '1376 ib , cf. (the ) Street Furlong 1671, 1637, 1743, 1768, 1793Td 'E , street furlong 1631Td 'E , Furlong called Street and Dale 1631Td 'E , the name of the ancient trackway from Horncastle to Caistor , found in many parishes in this Wapentake . It is called Middlegate Lane from Caistor to South Ferriby .