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.

Free Down Border

Other OS name in the Parish of Durweston

Historical Forms

  • Freedowne 1609 Weld1

Etymology

, Freedowne 1609Weld 1 , cf. ye downe c. 1580Hen 1 , v. frēo , dūn , border ' edge, boundary ' ( here a narrow plantation ) .