Fields End Pond
lake or loch · Cambridgeshire
Old EnglishSurmised
Probable2 sources · name elements
Fields End Pond is an Old English name meaning 'the pond at the end of the fields'. It describes the location of the pond relative to cultivated land.
Word origins
- Fields
- Old Englishcultivated land(from feld "field, open land")
- End
- Old EnglishAttestedextremity, limit(from ende "end")
- Pond
- Unknowna small body of still water(from pond "small lake")