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.

Potsgrove

Major Settlement in the Parish of Potsgrove

Historical Forms

  • Potesgraue 1086 DB Hy2 Ch 1260 Ass 1202 FF 1219 Fees894 1242 Ass 1247 FA 1284 Ipm 1285 NI 1291 Cl 1308 FA 1316,1346 Ipm 1348 CS 1390–2 FA 1428
  • Pottesgrave Hy3 Ch 1315 Ass 1247,1287 FA 1302 Ipm 1489,1499,1504
  • Pattesgrave 1220 LS 1276 Ass
  • Portesgrave 1242 Fees868 1428 FA
  • Podesgraua 1247 Ass 1315 Ipm 1373 IpmR
  • Potsgraue 1254 FF
  • Potegraue E1 KF 1276 Ass

Etymology

'Pot(t)'s grove' v. grafa . A pers. name Pott is not on record in OE  but Skeat quotes Pottingtun from an OE charter and we seem to have a diminutive of this pers. name in Potteles treow (BCS 924).

Places in the same Parish

None