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.

Linersh Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Bramley

Historical Forms

  • Lynershe t.Ed6 Rental

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Lynershe t. Ed 6Rental . Cf. also Lynershemede , Lynershe lane ,Leynershebrydge 1577Ct , Linish 1843TA . ' Flax stubble-field , ' v. lin , ersc .