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.

Littleworth

Other OS name in the Parish of Belton

Etymology

, a settlement site which may well be ancient although no early spellings survive . The hamlet appears on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of the county of 1824 , but no name is attached to it , v. lȳtel , worð . A late uncomplimentary nickname is , of course , a possibility .