Lark
Lark - OE lawerce
Presumably the skylark (Alauda arvensis) is the species in question here, the lark species that everyone would have known well on farmland. The woodlark may have been heard too, but wasn’t perhaps identified separately, or if it was lawerce covered both these very similarly plumaged aerial songsters.
Larkbeare (Dev)
Larkhill (Wilts)
Lark Stoke (Glos)
Larkton (Ches)
Laverstock (Wilts)
Laverton (Glos)
Laverton (Som)
Larks appear in charters relating to the following places: Buckland, Oxon (10th cen.), Cutsdean, Glos (10th cen.), Evenlode, Glos (10th cen.), Evesham, Worcs (8th cen.), Knoyle (East Knoyle), Wilts (10th cen.), Uffington, Berks (10th cen.).
Sources (see ‘About’ page for the full bibliography): Watts, Cambridge Dictionary; Ekwall, Oxford Dictionary; Gelling and Cole, Landscape of Place-Names; epns.nottingham.ac.uk; langscape.org.uk.