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.

Laughton Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Hampole

Historical Forms

  • Laughton 1540 MonRent

Etymology

, Laughton 1540 MonRent , v. lēac-tūn ' aherb garden ' , found several times in YW ; on the form v. Phonol.§ 20 .