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.

The Summer Ho

Other OS name in the Parish of Spettisbury

Historical Forms

  • Summerhouse 1838 TA

Etymology

( on site of Benedictine Priory ) , Summerhouse 1838TA , cf. situs in quo prioratus fuit olim edificatus 1447Eton ; for the former priory here , a cell of the abbey of Préaux , v. VCHDo 2119–121 .