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.

Pownall Fee

Major Settlement in the Parish of Wilmslow

Historical Forms

  • Pownall Fee 1634 JRL
  • feodum de Pownehale 1290 Ipm

Etymology

from which it is named, with ME  feo 'a fee, a lordship', cf. Bollin Fee 220supra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site