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.

Leafield

Other OS name in the Parish of Leathley

Historical Forms

  • the Leyfeilde 1684 ib

Etymology

, 1777Glebe , the Leyfeilde 1684 ib , v. lǣge ' fallow ' , feld .