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.

Sawbrooks

Field in the Parish of Pontesbury

Historical Forms

  • 1840 TA

Etymology

Sawbrooks(probably'willow brook', v. salh: TAMap shows a brook here,forming the N.W. township boundary, but this does not appear on later maps,its place being taken by a railway line)