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 Wash

Other OS name in the Parish of Whittlesey

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is so named in 1712 (ib. iv) . v . The Wash supra 212 .