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.

St Margaret's Chapel, St Margaret's Grove & St Margaret's Well

Other OS name in the Parish of St Briavels

Historical Forms

  • capell' hermitagii voc' St Margaretes Chapell c.1560 Surv
  • St Margretts Chappell 1652 ParlSurv

Etymology

( capell ' hermitagii voc ' St Margaretes Chapell c. 1560Surv , St Margretts Chappell 1652ParlSurv ) ( St Margrets Grove , a coppice 1652 ib ) , cf. also St Margretts Meades 1652 ib ; the West Midland area was specially devoted to St Margaret ; cf. Stowe (supra ) .