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.

Netherpool

Major Settlement in the Parish of Eastham

Historical Forms

  • Pulle e13 Orm2
  • Nethere Pulle 1307 Ipm
  • ville de Netherpulle en manoir de Pulle 1402 JRC
  • Pulle, called Nether-Pole 1539 Orm2
  • Poole 1819 ib

Etymology

otherwise as for Netherpool & Overpool infra . Netherpool township contained the manor-house of Poole, both house and township bearing the name Pool (e ).