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.

Park

Field in the Parish of Shillingstone

Historical Forms

  • 1838 TA 444–5 AddCh

Etymology

Park(cf. locum qui vocatur le Parke iuxta Ripam de Stoure 1330(15), v. park; the same park is probablyreferred to as parcum Abbatis de Forth 1330(15), lands in Shillingstone havingbeen granted to the abbey of Forde at least as early as the 13th cent., v. Hutch33 444–5)