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.

Dee Estuary

Other OS name in the Parish of St Oswald's

Historical Forms

  • aqua Cestr' 1320 MinAcct
  • Deemouth 1621 Orm2ii359 1656

Etymology

, aqua Cestr '1320MinAcct , Deemouth 1621 (1656) Orm2 ii359 , v. mūða . This body of water , and the sea into which it opens , may be the Dingesmere named in The Battle of Brunanburh , v. 240supra .