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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.

Priersfylde

Field in the Parish of Dorchester St Peter & All Saints

Historical Forms

  • Priersfylde 1483 Ct 1395 DorR

Etymology

Priersfylde 1483(cf.'the tenement of the Prior of St John of Dorcheste r' 1395, v. prior, feld, St John's Chapel supra)