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.

Isle of Rea

Other OS name in the Parish of Chippenham

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Raymead c. 1840TA . From OE  (æt þǣre ) īeg , ' at the island . '