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.

Adchester Wd

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hinton Waldrist

Historical Forms

  • Hatchesters 1762 EnclA

Etymology

Adchester Wd, Hatchesters 1762EnclA , cf. ArchJ 23 (1917) p. 31: 'Achester Camp—Hinton Waldrist. About ¼ mile east of the turn to Hinton Waldrist, on the road from Faringdon to Oxford, is the small rectangular earthwork, called Achester.' No earthwork is marked on the O.S. maps, but a similar description to that in ArchJ is given in VCH i, p. 264. The second el. is probably ceaster.