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.

Shrewsbury Arms

Other OS name in the Parish of Enstone

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Miss R . M . Marshall , Oxfordshire By - Ways 58 , speaks of this inn as the Talbot Arms . Under either name it commemorates , as she points out , the Talbots , the Catholic earls of Shrewsbury , who owned the manor of Heythrop in the 18th century .