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.

Buckmoor-end

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ellesborough

Historical Forms

  • Bockmer-end 1847 L.ii.180

Etymology

The forms are too late to do anything with. It is not evident that there was ever a mere here and as the place is not on the parish-boundary it is not clearly a case of mære . Perhaps the suffix is mor after all.

Places in the same Parish