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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.

Ling Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Selby

Etymology

, 1858 O.S. , cf. also le Lyng , le Lynghyrne 1320Ext , v. lyng ' heather ' , hyrne ' corner of land ' .