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.

Soddon

Other OS name in the Parish of East Stoke

Historical Forms

  • Sodom Grd 1843 TA

Etymology

( lost , SY 893853 ) , 1811 OS , Sodom Grd 1843TA , perhaps to be identified with pastur ' apud Suddon 1323 Min -Acct , ' south hill ' , v. sūð , dūn , but cf. Sodern in Charminster par . infra .