English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Worth's Causeway

Early-attested site in the Parish of Cherry Hinton

Historical Forms

  • Worts's Causeway 1812 EnclA
  • Worts Causeway c.1825 O.S.

Etymology

Worth's Causeway (6″) is Worts 's Causeway 1812EnclA , Worts Causeway c. 1825 O.S. and was so named from William Worts (d. 1709) who left £1500 to “be applied to the making of a calcey or causeway from Emmanuel College to Hogmagog alias Gogmagog Hills” (CAS xlvii, 6–7).