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.

Leeches

Other OS name in the Parish of Huddersfield

Historical Forms

  • Laches 1817 M

Etymology

, Laches 1817 M , v. læcc ' stream, swamp ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site