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.

Bloody Meadow

Other OS name in the Parish of Saxton

Etymology

, the site of several tumuli , which are doubtless the burial places of the casualties of the Battle of Towton ; v. TowtonBattlefield 72infra .