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.

Robin Hood's Cave

Other OS name in the Parish of Exton

Etymology

, a small medieval moated site now drowned in Rutland Water ; the moat may have surrounded a lodge for the keeper of the medieval deer park of Barnsdale , cf. atte Parke 1327SR (p) , v. park and MER 17 , 19 .