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.

Lunsford's Cross

Other OS name in the Parish of Ninfield

Historical Forms

  • Lunnesford 1340 NI

Etymology

is so called in 1547AsM and must take its name from some one whose family belonged to Lundsford supra 456 . Cf John de Lunnesford (1340 NI) in Ninfield .

Places in the same Parish