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.

Shire Ditch

Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Malvern

Historical Forms

  • in trenchato Hereford' 1164–79 WoC c.1250
  • in Haro Hereford' c.1180 c.1240 ib

Etymology

This would suggest that there was a shire ditch 100 years before Gilbert de Clare made a ditch (c. 1287) separating his lands from those of the Bishop of Hereford (cf. VCH iv. 93).

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