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.

Greet

Early-attested site in the Parish of Winchcomb

Historical Forms

  • Grete, Greta(m) 12–1339 WinchLB 1185 Templar e.13 BM 1221,1248 Ass 1285 FA 1582 FF
  • Greote 1327 SR
  • Grette 1470 FF 1509 Pat
  • Greete 1477 WinchLB 1559 PR 1722 et freq

Etymology

From OE  grēote 'a gravelly place', denoting gravelly soil above the Isbourne; cf. Gretton (infra ) and Greet Field (36infra ). The name has no connexion with Greston Hundred (1supra ).