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.

Wray Barton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Moretonhampstead

Historical Forms

  • Wereia 1086 DB(Exon)
  • Wergi
  • Wreie 1238 Ass
  • Wrey(e) 1292 Ipm 1370 IpmR
  • Wrey(e) juxta Morton 1314 Ass
  • Wrey al. Wreycombe 1467 Pat
  • Wray 1249 FF

Etymology

v. Wray supra 17.