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.

Green Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Priestley Green 1664 HAS
  • Priestley (ib 50)

Etymology

, named from Priestley Green 1664 HAS 33, 52, which in turn wasnamed from a local seventeenth-century family of Priestley (ib 50) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement