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.

Castle

Other OS name in the Parish of South Perrott

Etymology

( Site of ) , referred to by Kelly as ' Mohun Castle , destroyed during the insurrection of the Duke of Monmouth , 1685 ' , so named from the Mohun family who held a moiety of the manor in the early 17th cent. ( Hutch3 2164 ) .