Abbeystead
See also: abbeystead
Contents
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the Old French abeie or abbeie, meaning abbey, and the Old English stede, meaning place or site. Combined to mean "the site of the abbey" or "estate owned by the abbey".
Proper nounEdit
Abbeystead
- A village in Lancashire
ReferencesEdit
- Mills, David (1976), “Directory of Place Names”, in The Place Names of Lancashire, London: Batsford Books, →ISBN, page 53