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.

The Severals

Other OS name in the Parish of Hatfield

Historical Forms

  • Seueralls 1669 Bright
  • The Se(a)veralls 1675 Comm52

Etymology

, Seueralls 1669Bright 621, The Se (a )veralls 1675Comm 52 ; the term severell is used from the fifteenth century especially of ' a plot of privately owned land , esp . enclosed pasture land ' ( NED s.v . ) ; cf. Severhills iii, 69 .