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.

Grove

Major Settlement in the Parish of Grove

Historical Forms

  • la Graue 1188 P
  • la Graua 1189 ib
  • Graua 1201 ib
  • Graue 1284 Ass
  • Grave 1294 SR
  • Grove 1316 FA 1377,1413 Fine
  • Groue 1327 SR

Etymology

'Grove, copse', v. grāf . The civil parish was formed in 1832 out of that of Wantage, and the ecclesiastical parish in 1835 (Kelly 90).