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.

Wincraft Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Brumstead

Etymology

, v. *hvin , ModE  whin , a word of Scand origin which in Scand languages denotes various kinds of grass , and croft .