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.

Seven Farms

Early-attested site in the Parish of Belchamp Walter

Historical Forms

  • Seven Formes 1777 C

Etymology

Seven Farms (local) is Seven Formes 1777 C. This is where the brook crosses the road from Belchamp Walter to Borley through a brick culvert. Formerly there was a washway which in floodtime had to be crossed by pedestrians over seven plank stools or forms (ER x, 60–1). Cf. Four Fourmes Pasture and Lower Fourmes infra 629.

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Places in the same Parish