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.

Lightbeds

Other OS name in the Parish of Kettlewell

Historical Forms

  • the Leek Beds 1764 Glebe

Etymology

, 1847TA , the Leek Beds 1764Glebe , ' leak beds ' , v. lēac ' leek, garlic ' , bedd ; the modern form is an inversion through confusion of leek and ( liːt ) , the dial . pronunciation of light .