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 Green & Howe

Other OS name in the Parish of Orton

Historical Forms

  • -how 1777 M

Etymology

( 1777 NB 493 ) ( -how 1777 M ) , v. castel , grēne 2 , haugr , denoting a circular entrenched mound at grid 83 – 614052 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement