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.

Eversholt

Major Settlement in the Parish of Eversholt

Historical Forms

  • Eures(h)ot 1086 DB
  • Ewersolt (sic) 1162–79 HMC, Var iv
  • Euresholt 1185 P
  • Euereshold 1202 Ass
  • Evereshout 1202 FF 13th Dunst
  • Everesholt 1219 FF
  • Euersholt 1221 FF
  • Heueresholt 1240 Ass
  • Eversolt 1291 NI
  • Eversoll 1518 Award
  • Evershold 1526 LS
  • Eversoult 1552 Inv
  • Eversal(l) Eliz ChancP 1722 NQii
  • Evershall 1605 NQii

Etymology

'Boar's wood' v. eofor , holt .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site