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.

Castle Plantation

Other OS name in the Parish of Cheveley

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Castle Hill c. 1825 O.S. , Castle Folly c. 1840TA . There was formerly a castle here , surrounded by a deep ditch , the residence of the lords of the manor ( Layer ) . For Folly , v. infra 353 .