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.

Decoy Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Leverington

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is so named in 1905 (Wisb ) . Cf. the Coye 1659 Fenland ii . Coye , denoting a decoy , is a loan word from Dutch . Cf. NED s. v. Coy sb .