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.

Mill Ctgs

Other OS name in the Parish of Charmouth

Historical Forms

  • 'the Abbot's mill' 1320 Hutch3

Etymology

( local ) , named from 'the Abbot 's mill '1320 Hutch3 2223 ( referring to the abbot of Forde ) , cf. molendinummonachorum ('mill of the monks') m13 (15)Forde , aquam que conducit ad molendinum de Cernemuth l13 (15) ib , the Mill Lane 1602AD , Milhams c.1780Pole , v. hamm .