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.

Gingerbread Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Westbourne

Etymology

Gingerbread Fm (6″). Local tradition has it (Mee, Bourne in the Past 180) that one of its owners in the early 19th cent, had made his money as a baker and maker of gingerbread (L.F.S.).