indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Other
Usage English (British)
Meaning & History
The first recorded name was “Llanllienni” a Welsh name meaning Church in a Place of Streams. Renamed by the Saxons, after Leofric Earl of Hereford and husband of Lady Godiva. It appears as “Leofminstrein” in the Domesday Book. Leominster prospered in the medieval period.