Survey of English Place-Names

Etymology

Ramsbury Corner, Ramsbury Wood. There is a hill-fort here, not marked on the O.S. maps, but discovered by means of an air photograph in 1948, and described in Transactions of the Newbury District Field Club , ix, 2–4, 1951 and ArchJ 60, 49–50.The name is a fourth example of Ramsbury, 'raven's fort', applied to hill-forts in Berks and east W; v. Pt 2 for the others. Totterdown Meadow in the TA (infra 160) probably refers to this camp.