Settings Fm
Other OS name in the Parish of North Luffenham
Historical Forms
- Settings 1631 Terrier
Etymology
, Settings 1631Terrier , cf. Settin leas 1629Conant ( v. lēah ) , Sittings Close , Sixty Acre Settings 1943Map ; perhaps OE seten ' land in occupation ' , later ' buildings necessaryfor such occupation ' , v. Sx 561–2 . If of more recent origin , perhaps setting in some such sense as ' land marked out in some way , possibly as allotments under an enclosure agreement ' . The word is used in Orkney (EDD) in the sense ' piece of land ' .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Butt Lane
- Moor Lane Bridge
- Watermill Spinney
- Acorn Spinney
- Barker's Spinney
- Clay Lane
- Cow Pasture
- Fox and Hounds P.H.
- Great Close Spinney
- High Pasture
- Horse and Panniers P.H.
- Long Hedge Spinney
- Luffenham Hall
- Manor Fm
- Springthorpe Yard
- Moor Lane
- Nine Acre Spinney
- the Oval
- the Pastures
- Pinfold Lane
- Ratcliffe Spinney
- Rectory
- St John the Baptist's Church
- Shelton's Barn
- Wymark Spinney
- Church Lane
- Morcott Spinney