Lound

Lound, Nottinghamshire

Lound, in the Bassetlaw Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse element lundr ‘grove, wood’. This origin is celebrated on the village sign, and there is also a Grove Farm in the village.

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Viking Names

Keywords

landscape, Nottinghamshire, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Images © Judith Jesch

References

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), p. 85.