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.

Fair Green

Other OS name in the Parish of Swaffham Prior

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Horssefeyr ' in Reche (p.n.) 1349Ct , Rechefeyre 1424 ib . Self - explanatory . The earliest mention of horsefair in NED is dated 1369 .