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.

Long Causeway

Other OS name in the Parish of Wakefield

Historical Forms

  • le Cawsey 1485 WCR1

Etymology

, le Cawsey 1485WCR 1 , v. caucie ' a causeway, a raised way across marshy ground ' ( it runs through Pinders Fields ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site