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.

Risegate Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Cotgrave

Historical Forms

  • via voc. Rysegate ib.

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is via voc . Rysegate ib. , a compound of OE  or OScand  hrìs , ' brushwood ' and gata , ' road . ' Cf. Rushcliffe Wapentake infra 243–4 .