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.

Gibbet Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Toft Newton

Etymology

, cf. Gibbet Rath 1828 Bry , on the south - east corner of the parish on the boundary with Faldingworth LWR , with Gibbet Hill a little further east in Buslingthorpe LWR . Rath is recorded in EDD s.v. as ' acircular earthwork or mound ' , though in England only from Y . This is , however , probably the sense here .