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.

Widmere

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ibstone

Historical Forms

Withemere 1223 WellsR

Wythemere 1238 Gross 1339 Cl

Wydemere 1333 Cl 1349 Pat

Wydemore 1336 Pat

Wydmer 1535 VE

Etymology

'Withy-mere' v. wiðig , mere .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Ibstone