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.

Parliament Oak

Other OS name in the Parish of Clipstone

Etymology

is so named in 1826 (G) and is so called from a traditional account of a parliament or meeting having been held under it in the reign of King John (Rooke 18) .