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.

Fifehead Neville

Parish in the County of Dorset

Etymology

Lower Fifehead or Fifehead St Quintin was transferred to this par. in 1920 from Belchalwell, formerly a distinct par. in Cranborne hundred, now in Okeford Fitzpaine par. infra .

Major Settlements