English Explanatory Dictionary

Forest of Lyme

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A forest and geographical area of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, England, roughly centred on the modern-day Potteries.

Word forms

Forest of Lyme the Forest of Lyme

Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *limos (“elm”). However, note the objections of Coates (2003), who argued for a derivation from, via Proto-Brythonic, Latin līmes (“boundary”).

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