Origin of the name LEA Back

Origin

LEA : A pasture, meadow, lands not plowed, a common, a sheltered place; Lee, a river, a stream, from Lli, Welsh, a stream.

ANNESLEY : Local. From a town in Nottinghamshire, England, and named, perhaps, from Anclo, a city in Norway, by the free-booters or conquerors of Briton. Annansley, the lea, lying on the Annon.

ASHLEY : (Sax.) Local. The lea, field, or pasture abounding in ash-trees. Leegh, ley, or lea, signifying uncultivated grounds or pastures; lands untilled, generally used as commons.

LAWLEY : (Saxon) A place in the hundred of Blackburn, Shropshire, from Law, low, and ley, a place, lea, or pasture.

Origin of name provided by Jean Tosti

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