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.

Gate Close

Early-attested site in the Parish of Little Bedwyn

Historical Forms

  • Pedlar's Gate 1773 AandD

Etymology

Gate Close (6″) is, as Crawford has noted (WM xli, 294), so called from Pedlar 's Gate (1773 A and D) which was at the junction of the parishes of Little Bedwyn, Froxfield and Shalbourne and was by the …nes geat of the Little Bedwyn charter (BCS 225).