The story
- Old English · derived fromlȳtel“little”
- English todayLittle Hereford
Recorded as Lutelonhereford, Domesday Book 1086, from Old English lȳtel (“little”), dative lȳtlan. The name may have arisen from being an area north of the River Teme almost cut off from the rest of Herefordshire.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishlȳtel all →
LittletonLittlewoodLittledaleLittleoverLittleworth
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.