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.

Monkey Oak

Other OS name in the Parish of Harberton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Monkeneoke 1626, Mounkenoake 1652Recov . ' Monks' oak , ' referring to the monks of Buckfast Abbey , who held the manor of Englebourne near by .